UN General Assembly
2001

This world and, in particular, the United Nations face a challenge for which they are not duly prepared. We have created the technological and communication means to unify the planet and globalize it. But we neither know how nor have the proper instruments to properly manage this process. We are living through an amazing revolution, and it must be guided — driving it forward if it stalls, limiting it if it goes too far — in order to achieve the goals enabling the structuring of a new, balanced international system that takes into account the changes that have occurred for humankind over the last 50 years. The United Nations was born as a response to a world that today no longer exists. The instruments and institutions it created in the past were a response to past realities — replaced today by new realities — in the political, demographic, cultural, religious and ecological spheres. All the many countries that make up this global society and that, together, navigate through space, have the obligation of confronting this new reality, drawing