UN General Assembly
2009

their interconnected responsibility to protect States will realize the importance of accepting the collaboration of the international community as a means of fulfilling their role of providing responsible sovereignty. The mechanisms of the United Nations for addressing common security and the prevention of conflicts were developed in response to the threat of total war and nuclear destruction in the second half of the last century, and for this reason alone they deserve perennial historical remembrance. Moreover, the work of peacekeepers have stabilized and ended innumerable local conflicts and have made related reconstruction possible. Nevertheless, it is well known that the number of conflicts that the United Nations has not been able to resolve remains high and that many of them have become occasions of serious crimes against humanity. That is why the acceptance of the principle of the responsibility to protect and of the underlying truths that guide responsible sovereignty can be the catalyst for the reform of the mechanisms, procedures and representativeness of the Security Council. 09-53165 44 In this context, my delegation would like to recall