It was further highlighted that they would be more effective and efficient if their agenda and decisions more adequately reflected the needs and troubles of the majority of the countries affected by them.

The Institute has been approached with a proposal to engage a local consultant to update the drafts with the aim of making them more comprehensive by addressing current concerns regarding operational issues and applicability.

The representative explained that it was difficult to make parents change their traditions and to make them understand that their daughters, even if married, still had the right to inherit from their parents.

As the two texts were on the same subject, his delegation proposed that the Committee should consider them together and that the sponsors should amalgamate them into a single working paper to be submitted to the Committee at the next session.

In France, conservatism was so entrenched on both the left and the right that both missed the movement s meaning and could only fall back on stereotyped revolutionary interpretations.

In this context, my delegation would like to commend Mr. Nelson Mandela and Mr. F. W. de Klerk for their determination and untiring efforts in bringing political change, for which they richly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.

It is, in the view of the Finnish Government, important to treat a change of the Charter provisions governing the composition of the Security Council as a matter sui generis which should not be linked to other initiatives for amending the Charter or reforming the United Nations system.