'Tested as never before.' (Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on the United Nations' role in the Iraq-Kuwait crisis) (Brief Article).

On 2 July, the Secretary-General told the German Foreign Policy Society in Bonn, Germany, that in recent months the UN had been tested as never before in its handling of the Iraq-Kuwait crisis. While the Organization had proven itself capable of fulfilling one of the most serious responsibilities devolving on it from the Charter, namely, the reversal of international aggression, an undoubtedly high cost had been exacted in human and economic terms.

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