UN General Assembly
2012

lead us to a review of the international economic decision-making processes that affect the fate of peoples who have not participated directly in those processes but yet are unfortunately the first to bear their negative impacts on growth, trade, the environment and the social fabric of society, as a result of unfair trade rules and practices and conditionalities imposed on the transfer of technology and access to necessary financing for development. We urgently need a new people-centred form of global economic governance that aims at consolidating cooperation between development partners on the basis of mutual benefit and interests. I have laid out our vision, which is shared by the Egyptian people. I have also attempted to brief ly outline Egypt’s views on the main issues, which is to say the vision of Egyptian youth, children, women and men, Muslim and non-Muslim, on all important questions in the Middle East, Africa and the rest of the world. From that perspective, I am sure that the United Nations is capable of assuming its intended role of effectively