UN General Assembly
2008

widely extended to involve the transparent interference of the United States in the subregional and regional organizations in our part of the world. This untenable state of affairs cannot go on and should not be tolerated. The human sufferings have been and are too great, the time too long. Therefore, the collective international efforts to check United States excesses are timely and imperative — all the more so because those failures are widely recognized and acknowledged by significant segments of public opinion in the United States itself. The perils of unchecked unipolarism have become glaringly obvious in the past few years. That reality can only accentuate the need to bolster the 08-53141 16 United Nations to make it a democratic and robust institution of multilateralism through prolonged and concerted collective efforts. The need for prompt action requires great urgency, particularly in our region. For that to happen, first of all, illegal occupation of sovereign territories must be terminated and the rule of law and the Charter of the United Nations fully respected. Secondly, the