UN General Assembly
2009

Please permit me to congratulate Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, on behalf of the Prime Minister, Government and people of Belize, on having assumed the presidency of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session and to wish him every success in his stewardship. Permit me also to extend my Government’s thanks to Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann for his excellent stewardship of the work of the sixty-third session of the General Assembly. Belize is pleased to discharge its obligation by participating in the general debate of the sixty-fourth regular session of the General Assembly on the theme “Effective responses to global crises: strengthening multilateralism and dialogue among civilizations for international peace, security and development”. Just over one week ago, we celebrated the twenty-eighth anniversary of our independence. Joining us in the celebrations were members of the diplomatic core drawn from the four corners of the globe. And even as we made merry, our collective minds were silently cogitating upon the crises that are threatening to destroy our collective way of life and, indeed, the very planet which sustains us.