Let me first offer my heartfelt condolences to the people and the Government of Pakistan for the appalling terrorist attack by the Taliban on a school in Peshawar, which has resulted in the killing of scores of innocent people, most of them children. We condemn that terrorist act in the strongest te…
The agenda item we are discussing today, and the draft resolutions we will shortly be taking action on (A/69/L.34 and A/69/L.41), have acquired increasing importance in the past few months and years. They were important to begin with because of their focus on peace, the single most important pillar …