UN General Assembly
2009

Climate change is one of the key issues that require an urgent response from the international community. Bosnia and Herzegovina aspires to end the year 2009 with successful completion of international negotiations on climate change. Furthermore, we hope that the Copenhagen summit will produce an agreement that outpaces the Kyoto Protocol and that it will gain the support of the United Nations Member States. However, it is not only island countries that are affected by this problem. It is a universal challenge and threat. Humanitarian catastrophes caused by weather conditions that have affected parts of our planet over recent years should serve as a warning to all of us. Neither economic nor political interests must be allowed to obstruct the achievement of a global consensus as the true beginning of a global struggle to prevent the loss of the natural balance of our planet. All of us gathered here today agree that consensus and comprehensive reform of the United Nations system is necessary and that it ought to be carried out in a careful, prudent manner that ensures