UN General Assembly
2009

Security Council and the General Assembly. The General Assembly must be invigorated by giving greater weight to its role and to its authority as the main deliberative and representative organ of the Member States. The General Assembly’s prerogatives as the chief oversight body of the United Nations, even in the area of peacekeeping, must be respected. As for reform of the Security Council, it must be directed at achieving transparency and balance within that body. Its enlargement will enable better representation of all regions in order to allow us to debate new approaches to the maintenance of international peace and security. This is an African position that has been advocated during this general debate by the Leader of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (see ), and it is one that the Central African Republic supports. My country hopes that reform of the United Nations system will 09-52470 40 have a positive impact on the development of multilateral cooperation in our ever-changing world.