UN General Assembly
2009

build green technologies that counteract the impact of climate change in the developing world. We in Rwanda have been making a modest but proportionate contribution by, among other things, hosting African preparatory meetings for the Copenhagen summit in order to encourage a strong and essential African voice at that critical meeting. We have also been actively implementing national environmental policies for reforestation, terracing and the rehabilitation of wetlands that supply lake and river systems in our country, to name a few areas in which we have had good results. On the matter of peace and security, the world faces a number of regional threats. The Great Lakes region has its share of peace and security problems, but we continue to make significant progress in 11 09-52320 fundamentally addressing that question. The leaders of the region recognize that, most crucially, home-grown solutions, beginning with a joint regional effort, can bring about sustainable peace. It is in that context that, together with our colleagues and neighbours in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we are dealing