UN General Assembly
2012

Congo and between the two Sudans, violence in Libya and outbreaks in Côte d’Ivoire and the Central African Republic are situations which many attempts to resolve have proved ineffective. Based on the principle that without peace and security development is not possible, the international community, embodied in the United Nations, has the firm obligation to contribute to establishing peace by making use of all the legal mechanisms at its disposal for settling conflict. The Organization has been particularly active in recent years in different theatres of conflict, such as Afghanistan, Darfur, Côte d’Ivoire, Libya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since its inception, the United Nations has never been so involved in different hotbeds of tension around the world. We commend that presence because of its calming and legitimizing effect on populations and even on protagonists. However, we also need to ponder the form and effectiveness of that presence. The stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite the massive and costly deployments