UN General Assembly
2007

States, and the myth of a clash of civilizations, the international community should through its actions today build a practical partnership that will lay the foundations of new systems for the world order. When we succeed in working together, we will be able to tackle the most serious problems. Let us take the subject of terrorism. Force alone, even the most powerful and the most sophisticated, cannot overcome terrorism. Its use instead causes a further spiral of terror. We have all painfully come to realize this. Instead, we have understood the true impact of poverty, inequality, social vulnerability and illiteracy on the rise of extremism and terrorism and have taken up the fight against terrorism through joint and comprehensive efforts, and have thus started to undermine the very foundations of terrorism. The decisive role in this, in our opinion, belongs to the United Nations. The United Nations must also reassert its leading role in the fight against such growing evils as trafficking in human beings and bring about cooperation between the countries of origin and