UN General Assembly
2006

will produce no lasting effect unless development issues are treated as priorities. It is up to the United Nations as the driving force, the glue of solidarity among peoples, and the fullest expression of multilateralism, to keep development at the top of the international agenda. For it is in the connection between security, solidarity and development that the added value of the United Nations lies, in the full awareness that there can be no peace without development and no development without peace. It is not enough to enunciate at this rostrum, as speakers have been doing for six years now, the words “Millennium Development Goals”. We must get to work and carry them out, starting with the adoption of the financial, trade, technological and environmental steps required and aiming for a very specific, ambitious goal that responds above all to a moral duty: to guarantee a dignified life for every human being. I wish to conclude with a few considerations on the fundamental principles and values that inspire our action when we deal with multilateralism, the search