Today we commemorate the adoption by consensus, in September 2001, of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. I salute the vast majority of Member States that are showing their support for this important achievement, i…
I am profoundly honoured to be here for this commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Six decades ago, on this day, the General Assembly proved that the ostensibly unachievable was, in fact, attainable. It affirmed the force of ideas and a vision of res…
