UN General Assembly
2001

countries and regions. At the same time, it calls on and encourages the parties involved in areas where conflicts and disputes are born and persist to redouble their efforts and to use their capabilities and potential to seek peaceful solutions through peaceful negotiations. In this context, Equatorial Guinea reaffirms that the People’s Republic of China is the sole State entity that is representative of the Chinese people. We also welcome the recent initiative to resume the North-South dialogue for the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula, and we support the principles endorsed and the responsibilities assumed by the Governments of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea. At a time when the United Nations is fully engaged in the search for solutions to alleviate the many evils besetting peoples in all corners of the world, through the adoption of strategies and programmes of action to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic to mention just one example, the illegal traffic in weapons and drugs, drug addiction, the mortgaging of the lives of children through their traffic and easy