UN General Assembly
2005

other initiatives that we have set up over the past five years to tackle post-conflict problems. We have no doubt that the new office will provide a “guinea pig” for the work of the proposed United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, to which we will spare no effort to lend support. As members are aware, it is not enough to establish these short-term yet essential post-conflict bridges; what we desperately need is the mobilization of resources, including those required for capacity- building for sustainable economic and social development. The objective is not merely to ensure that Sierra Leone and other countries emerging from conflict do not slide back into conflict; rather, the ultimate objective must be to ensure that Sierra Leoneans do not remain in abject poverty. The creation of the Peacebuilding Commission will be in consonance with the views expressed by my country’s President five years ago when, from this rostrum at the Millennium Summit, he spoke about the imperative of adaptation by the United Nations. He pleaded with the Organization to continue to adapt and