Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me the floor to address this important agenda item. I should like to begin by thanking the distinguished representative of Denmark, who spoke earlier in the debate on behalf of the member States of the European Union, and to take this opportunity to put on record…
Last year, at the Millennium Summit, our leaders pledged unanimously to work together to make our world more peaceful, more prosperous and more just. That is an enormous challenge. While the United Nations, the most universal and most representative organization in the world, is ideally suited to pl…