I am honoured to be here. I thank the President of the General Assembly, Mr. Srgjan Kerim, for convening this dialogue on religious and cultural understanding, and the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and the Philippines for proposing it.
A noble framework — the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, …
Since the founding of the United Nations and the establishment in 1946 of the Commission on Human Rights, the United States has led efforts to promote and protect human rights. We remain true to our fundamental belief in and pursuit of human rights, both at home and around the globe.
It was in that…