UN General Assembly
2010

governance. To that end, we need to deepen the process of reforms begun within the Organization. Panama is committed to making its contribution to this process, placing its geographical position and its logistics infrastructure at the service of the Organization. In this regard, my Government has two key projects, namely, the establishment of a United Nations inter-agency centre for Latin America and the Caribbean and the creation of a regional logistics centre for humanitarian assistance, both to be located in Panama. The first will promote more coherence and synergy between all regional offices, with greater efficiency in the use of resources. The second will improve the regional capacity to respond to natural disasters and humanitarian crises, and will be the site of warehouses for the United Nations, and the Red Cross and Red Crescent. We reaffirm our conviction that the United Nations is the international forum for the exchange of ideas and for adopting measures that strengthen the pillars upon which world governance rests. The United Nations is also a forum of goodwill where nations can