UN General Assembly
2010

regulation given the growing speed with which financial and economic instruments can be manipulated. Peru commends the efforts that have been made, but proposes that the work of the G-20 gain in legitimacy by establishing fluid lines of communication with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and by involving other countries in this work. But just as in the financial crisis, all nations must coordinate our efforts to properly confront terrorism, drugs, the illicit arms trade, money laundering, trafficking of persons, xenophobia and climate change. With respect to this last theme, I must note that Peru is vulnerable to the environment and is at very serious risk due to climate change. But at the same time, my country is strategically placed to mitigate and adapt to the effects of global climate change because it ranks fourth in terms of the quantities of tropical forests. We want to change our discourse. We have not come with hand extended to demand cooperation from the rich of the world but to demand that they fulfil their