UN General Assembly
1999

Mauritania welcomes the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru and the Kingdom of Tonga to the membership of our Organization. We would like to express our readiness to work with them to achieve the objectives of the United Nations. We have to undertake immediately the reform of the United Nations and the restructuring of its organs in order to serve the world’s common interests. No one can deny that the circumstances in which the Organization was founded more than 50 years ago have changed a great deal, and that important new changes have occurred in all areas since then. This only makes a re-examination of the structures and working methods of the Organization more imperative. It is in this spirit that my delegation supports the expansion of representation in the Security Council in accordance with the principles of democracy, transparency and equity in order to ensure equitable geographical representation in that body, and to reflect the universal nature of our Organization, as laid down in the Charter. 18 As we meet at the threshold of the third millennium,