UN General Assembly
2012

﻿I would first like to extend hearty congratulations to the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session, Mr. Jeremić, to whom I wish the greatest success in his work. Just one year ago, I ended my statement (see A/66/PV.27) by reasserting the notion of commitment as a fundamental value and linchpin of our political action, understood as a deep belief in the values of democracy, respect for human rights and the rule of law; as the assumption of individual responsibilities for a common project; and ultimately as a desire for dialogue and understanding. It is in the pursuit of that commitment and that balance — what we might call the right balance — that the difficulty of Government resides. That is the case at home, in every one of our States, and also in our shared home of the United Nations. A year ago in this Assembly, we echoed a phrase of the then French President, who stated: “Let us choose the path of compromise, which is neither renunciation nor repudiation, but which allows us to move forward,