I begin this speech with mixed emotions — happiness over the election of our friend Julian Hunte — Minister of our sister country in the Caribbean, Saint Lucia — as President of this body; and pain, because our United Nations lost one of its best people, as did Brazil, an exemplary member of one of …
The Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, a transcendental milestone in the collective effort to deal with a world scourge, is an example of cooperation in which the initiative of the United Nations demonstrates how multilateralism can contribute to combating scourges of global dimensions that affe…
