UN General Assembly
2006

constructive ties with the United Nations and with its neighbours throughout Europe as the country moves towards formal accession to the European Union.” I myself could not have put it better if I had wished to characterize in a nutshell our genuine commitment to effective multilateralism and to better management of the rapid and multifaceted changes brought about by the globalization process. That is why Romania understands, and wishes to be an active participant in, the current reform process, pursuant to the guidelines we accepted as set out in the Millennium Summit Outcome. We have made significant steps ahead as far as institutional reform is concerned. We agreed to change the Human Rights Commission, a body whose historical mission had been accomplished. We created a new Human Rights Council to help the United Nations make a fresh start in the implementation of the impressive corpus of international human rights instruments built since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But let us not indulge in complacency. If we do not fill this new box with the expected