UN General Assembly
2002

globalized world it is essential for us to act in accordance with the principles and values promoted by the United Nations. In Africa we now see signs of hope. Chile wishes to express its firm support for the African continent in its decision to create modern regional instruments, such as the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development. We hope that these initiatives, to which Africans themselves have referred to as the African renaissance, will generate in the international community a response commensurate with those efforts. This is a new challenge for the twenty-first century, and the United Nations must be involved. Chile, a small nation that looks out at the world from the South, has developed important links of international solidarity in the most diverse directions in Latin America as part of the inter- American system; in its association with the European Union; and as a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization. In opting for open multilateralism, we are facing today's challenge of working towards a more secure world a world free