UN General Assembly
2010

The values upon which the Organization was founded, 65 years ago, are still appropriate for overcoming the global challenges we face today. Whether in fighting poverty, protecting the environment and conserving biodiversity, building peace in conflict areas, helping populations affected by natural disasters, promoting human rights, the rule of law and democracy in the world, making progress towards disarmament and non-proliferation or combating terrorism, we need to work together today more than ever before. You yourself, Mr. President, have quite rightly organized the general debate under the theme “Reaffirming the central role of the United Nations in global governance”. As a founding Member of the United Nations, Luxembourg fully endorses the Secretary-General’s assessment that only the United Nations has the scope, knowledge and legitimacy necessary to develop and implement effective policies in order to address global challenges, which require urgent and collective responses. However, we cannot content ourselves with that simple article of faith. We need to draw the necessary conclusions and take responsibility for them. Those responsibilities are both individual and collective ones, especially for members