Governments to slrengthen Eheir laws and institutions $ith a view to restorino andstrengthening respecE for hunan right.s. 46. As the Secretary-cene ral noted earlier this year in his address to thernternational- coll.oquiun on the Rights of Minorities. held at Lavar university, Quebec, Canada, on 8 March 1985, "we should not, ho$ever, be paralysed by this gapL/ 40/6't7 English Page 12 between our aspirations and but Eo rededicaee our selves universally recognized. Wethe reality of sorl.d affairs. Th€re is no alternalive continuously to prornoBing universal resPect for rights all kno!, too eell the price to be paid if ue falter.o Notes L/ world Economic survev 1985 (uniEed Nacions publication' sales No. 8.85.II.C.1), p. 3, ?/ The state of Ehe worldrs children (Nee york, UNrcEF, 1985) ' P. 16' 1/ The situation wiEh respecf, to a nunber of ocher rights conEained in che Covenant is dealt rith in the report of the Secreta ry-Gene ral on the netJ incerDational humanitarian orater (A/40l348 and Add.1). see also Ehe report of the sec re Ea ry-General on social aspecCs of develoPnenE (A/39 /L7L-E/1984/54'| and Che report of the secreta ry-General on the review and appraisal of Ehe International Developnent Slrategy for the Third United NaEions Development Decade lA/ 39 /IL5-E/L984I49 and corr.l and 2). t/ official Records of the G€neral Assenbly, Fortieth iession' supplenenb No. 19 (A,/40lI9), Part one, Para. 33. 2/ Ibid. ' para. 50. g./ See Official Records of the Econonic and Social Council' 1985, Supplement No. 9 (E/1985/29). 7/ official Records of the G€neral Assenbly, Portieth Session, supplement No. 40 (A/40/40), annex VI' paras. 3-5. g/ See Official Records of the Econooic and Social Council' 1985, SupplenenE No, 2 (E/1985/22). ch'ap. If' sect. A. 2/See Adverse Ehe Entof lriIi and of Assistance Given to Ehest Colonialist of SouthAfrica (United Nations publicaEion, saLes No.8.85.XIV.4