UN General Assembly
2009

reform financial instruments and preserve international stability. The world financial system no longer meets the needs and realities of our time. The institutions monitoring that system have to be reformed. We need to create an early prevention and early warning mechanism, and the United Nations should be entrusted with more resources and prerogatives as the main coordinator for the delivery of global public goods. Our task will be to ensure discipline and predictability within the system, while preserving the freedom of the market as the main engine of economic growth. We welcome in this respect the commitments undertaken at the summit of the Group of Eight to discourage protectionism and ensure the conclusion of the Doha negotiations by 2010. We need a twenty-first century multilateralism that is both innovative and pragmatic. Romania is devoted to that cause and seeks to expand its cooperation with the United Nations in ever more creative and pragmatic ways. To illustrate Romania’s interests and its more concrete contributions to the United Nations system, I am proud to point to just two