UN General Assembly
2000

recent decades in order to adapt to the requirements of our time, when different aspects of international life in the political, economic and social spheres are all interlinked. The challenges of our modern world require a global vision and common action that would take into account the link between peace, security and sustainable development based on a political approach that combines democracy, human rights and good governance, as well as overall strategies for the fight against poverty on an international scale. Indeed, poverty has been identified by major international authorities and also in the statements that emerged from the Millennium Summit and the Security Council as well as by the Secretary-General in his reports to the Millennium Summit and to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session as one of the main causes of international economic imbalance and as a source of instability, conflict and tension in many regions of the world. In our opinion, the international community is called upon today to objectively develop a concept of international peace and security as well as the means to