UN General Assembly
2018

While respecting different systems of government, I believe that politics in future will be not only about how to obtain power but also how to use it for the good of the people. Based on our firm belief in the need to build a fairer and more peaceful world, Panama is working to broaden its bilateral relations with countries of South-East Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and with Australia and China, as a means of getting closer to the world and of fulfilling our role as a builder of bridges. Over the past 10 years, I have had opportunities to visit more than 40 countries and become acquainted at first hand with best practices, technology and cooperation programmes, which we have been able to use in my country. Such is the nature of diplomacy — using our abilities to help, and not destroy, one another. Accordingly, we are developing a monorail with Japanese technology, a subway with French trains, technical higher education based on the Singaporean model and electric power plants fuelled by natural