UN General Assembly
2003

General and a carefully selected group of political leaders themselves come up with recommendations for United Nations reform. Their recommendations could be placed before a special session of the General Assembly, at which heads of State or Government would be present. I suggest that the time frame for this need not be any longer than at the inception of the United Nations, 58 years ago. In conclusion, let us remind ourselves that 11 September was a tragic wake-up call for all of us. The 19th of August was a tragic wake-up call for the United Nations. We have before us a historic opportunity to build a United Nations worthy of the people whom we have the honour to represent a United Nations where honesty is not clouded by diplomacy, where realism replaces rhetoric, and where action supplants treaties.