UN General Assembly
2007

like to commit to supporting, in an imaginative fashion, human rights, democracy, tolerance and diplomacy as a means for settling all disputes, as well as dialogue between cultures and civilizations. It is worthwhile recalling that Bucharest hosted the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) High-Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding in June 2007. That Conference was an opportunity to highlight the need to react at the political and institutional levels to combat all forms of intolerance and discrimination in order to guarantee respect for human rights and to ensure that every citizen feels protected by the law and has concrete proof of the solidarity of others when his or her rights are flouted. I believe that the international community needs to give deeper consideration to some sensitive issues in order to adopt appropriate measures. I am thinking about the need to ensure that the rights of children are protected, and that is why Romania supports the establishment of the post of Special Representative of the Secretary-General to combat violence against children.