UN General Assembly
2008

reinforcing the peace agreements in El Salvador. Today, El Salvador is a model. We are living witnesses of the fundamental role of the United Nations in guaranteeing peace and stability. Mindful of our experience, El Salvador is participating actively as Vice-Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission. Similarly, we have become a troop-contributing country within the United Nations system, a role that we are proud to assume to defend world peace and security in times of need. On that basis, we have participated and continue to take part in operations in Côte d’Ivoire, Western Sahara, Liberia, Iraq and Haiti, and recently, we joined the Spanish contingent in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. Migration, particularly when undocumented, has increasingly become a source of differences, instability and conflict. As a country of origin, transit and destination for migratory flows, we appeal for the continued strengthening of actions to combat and prevent the illegal trafficking of migrants and trade in persons in all their forms and for guaranteeing full protection and support for the victims of those crimes, particularly women and children.