UN General Assembly
2011

destroyed because there is either too much rain or too little rain, too much wind or too much sunshine. All these possibilities are due to climate change. Therefore, I encourage the international community to come up with mechanisms to manage climate change. I know that countries like Malawi have not contributed to the 11-51670 34 incidence of climate change. Nevertheless, we feel we do have a collective responsibility to make sure that the issue of climate change is addressed. I hope that the upcoming seventeenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, scheduled to take place in South Africa, will address this particular problem. The third area to which my country attaches importance is the issue of peace and security. As we are all aware, no matter how much development we achieve, it will be meaningless if there is no peace and security in our countries. Unfortunately, in our countries, especially in Africa, we now face a lot of challenges. There are movements of people who are bent upon bringing about unconstitutional changes of