UN General Assembly
2018

Despite its 73 years of existence, our Organization must continue to work to strengthen itself and to assure people of its relevance and importance. Building an equitable world in a peaceful and healthy environment is a shared and long-term undertaking and a responsibility that we all share. Let us therefore trust our Organization, the only framework that enables us to remain united in strong action and that creates greater hopes for the peoples of the world. To that end, I want to pay a well-deserved tribute to a great man and a worthy son of Africa who stood at the helm of our shared Organization. I am referring, of course, to the late Mr. Kofi Annan.