UN General Assembly
2006

the international community as a whole and calls on the international community to consider immediately the best means to respond to tsunami experiences with appropriate legal and other instruments that address the need for standards of transmission of early warnings to population in the most vulnerable areas in all the countries of the world. The setting of international standards for preparing for phenomena such as tsunamis can provide countries with an appropriate up- to-date measuring stick and continuously upgraded preparation. The international community needs multilateralism. The process of institutional reform is another necessary and important component of efforts to enhance effective multilateralism. Over the past months, some slow progress has been made in following up the decisions taken at last year’s World Summit in this regard. We are all conscious of the efforts that need to continue at this session of the General Assembly on various aspects of institutional reform, including the most sensitive one, relating to the enlargement and reform of the Security Council. That matter has gained in urgency; the impasse should be