UN General Assembly
2006

that is true to its central mandate to serve humanity well. Unfortunately, the reformation of the United Nations is moving at a snail’s pace, which frustrates its work, undermines its efficacy, and damages its credibility. To be sure, some modest progress has been made by way of the establishment of a new Human Rights Council and the Peacebuilding Commission. But, frankly, too much time is wasted on fussing and fighting on esoteric issues touching and concerning the so-called mandate review and management reform, rather than focusing on the critical matter of the implementation of the “development resolution” adopted by the General Assembly. In the process, too, let us have a reform of the Security Council that is meaningful and democratic. The world’s marginalized and disadvantaged look askance at a United Nations that daily seeks to choreograph the dancing of angels on the head of a pin. They care very little for the bureaucratic harangue that the United Nations “system-wide coherence” has been addressed and enhanced, important as that may be for some professional diplomats. The world’s people want