Fifteen years ago, I addressed this body on the occasion of the Millennium Summit (see A/55/PV.5), which adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). I said then that we were gathered to reconfirm that the principles of the United Nations system could lead our world into a new millennium w…
I would first like to congratulate Mr. Vuk Jeremić on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at this year’s session. I also wish to place on record Saint Lucia’s thanks to Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser for his contribution as President of the Assembly at its sixty- sixth session.
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We are gathered here today to reaffirm our faith in this Organization, this United Nations. We are gathered here to reconfirm that the purposes and principles of its Charter can safely lead us in the new millennium and fulfil the ageless expectation of a world free of poverty, free of hunger, free o…
