UN General Assembly
2010

The most important challenge facing our world today is achieving the MDGs by 2015. We know that many States have made huge and outstanding efforts to that end. In this context, the Kingdom of Bahrain holds a leading and positive position, particularly in the field of social welfare, free, quality basic education, health care, improvement of child and maternal health, the empowerment of women, gender equality, the 10-55122 44 expansion of the social security net for the poorest of the population, our unemployment insurance scheme, and expansion of the scope of vocational training to enhance Bahrain’s human resources. I am honoured to stand before the Assembly as representative of a country actively pursuing its international responsibilities. When we refer to the notion of a modern State as the most important political, social, cultural and economic product of the modern history of the Kingdom of Bahrain, it is because whatever achievements have been realized can be attributed to good governance — governance that has encouraged and supported initiatives and political and organizational visions aimed at building the