the recent decades, we have lived throuqh a difficult and heartbreakinq exoerience of national discord and division. All Chileans have learned from that experience. Today, we want to construct a future of tolerance, mutual respect and the promotion of the diqnity of the individual, quided by a majoritarian desire for truth, justice and national reconciliation. We Chileans want to leave behind us the divided Chile with double international representation the Assembly knew in the past. We want to face the future with a sense of shared national destiny. We want to make dialoque and rational neqotiation a privileqed instrument of our democratic identity. We want to make certain that the leqacy of authoritarianism does not destroy the democratic opportunities the country has won. RM/12 A/S-18/PV. 5 46 (Mr. Soma via, Chile) Reaching this day was not easy. There was much sufferinq alonq the way -much injustice, much abuse, much arroqance, much impotence and many tears. The quidinq thread of our democratic culture had been mislaid. There were tremendous violations of human rights -the disappearance of persons, horrible crimes, exile, torture, the denial of justice, arbitrary arrest and many other overt and covert kinds of actions against the diqnity of persons. I should particularly like to emphasis that throughout all those years the United Nations was always alert to the situation in Chile. There was a widespread feeling that it was impossible to ignore what was happening there. Year after year the authoritarian reqime was condemned. Thus, the spirit of struqgle and the will to persist of the Chileans who were persecuted by the dictatorship was significantly reinforced. The United Nations played an irreplaceable role in all the internal and external factors that finally led to the triumph of democracy in Chile. I would recall especially the Centre and Commission for Human Rights, their 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a speech or statement about the country of Chile, focusing on its recent past, present, and future. It mentions the country's experience with authoritarianism, human rights violations, and the struggle for democracy. The text also touches on the role of the United Nations in promoting democracy and human rights in Chile.

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Culture, Humanitarian aid and relief