UN General Assembly
2008

The world can hope for peace only when dialogue and understanding of basic values that respect diversity are elevated above intolerance and fundamentalism. Spain will continue to assert this conviction in all forums where our contribution is or can be relevant — including, first and foremost, at the United Nations. We will do so not only because it is the best way to stress the key desires of Spanish society, but also because we want to shoulder our responsibility for bringing about the just, secure, caring international order in which we believe. The capacity for human progress cannot be questioned. The thirst for discovery and innovation, the desire to go beyond ourselves, opens the door for meeting human needs every day in all areas. It is a question of placing this immense creative force in the service of those values on which human dignity is based, eliminating arbitrariness, injustice and all forms of discrimination, starting with those that women have so unfairly endured throughout history. We cannot stop; we cannot give up. In the United Nations, with a rational attitude,