We meet at an important moment. Today, we celebrate the huge progress that the world has made towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and we commit to going even further through the new Sustainable Development Goals. Since the MDGs were adopted in the year 2000 (resolution 55/2), we have mad…
This year we face extraordinary tests of our values and our resolve. In responding to the aggression against one of our Member States, Ukraine; in seeking peace in the Middle East; in dealing with the terrifying spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa; and in overcoming what I want to focus on toda…
The conflict in Iraq and Syria is shocking the world with its barbarity. The cruelty that is being meted out — beheadings, eyes being gouged out, rape — is horrific. It is literally medieval in its character. The appalling murder of the French citizen Hervé Gourdel is the latest horror. The French …
I am proud that this year Britain welcomed the world to the Olympic and Paralympic games and put on a great display, showing that while we may have only the twenty- second-largest population in the world, we can roll out one of its warmest welcomes.
I am honoured, too, that in the coming year I hav…
It is an honour to address the General Assembly for the first time, and it is a particular honour to do so as such momentous events unfold in the Arab world. Last week I was in Tripoli and Benghazi. I saw the hunger of a people eager to get on with reclaiming their country, writing themselves a new …
