UN General Assembly
2007

taken by San Marino, together with a group of small European countries, in favour of a United Nations Children’s Fund project against HIV and destined for children living in Gabon. At the same time, the small countries are intensifying their contacts within the United Nations to adopt further joint intervention programmes, mainly of a humanitarian character. The Republic of San Marino promotes and supports, with the strength of its millenary history of civilization, peace and respect for human rights, any call advanced at a national or international level entailing a moral and civil commitment to the affirmation of specific ideological and cultural identities, which, as is the case for San Marino, are based on the principles of peaceful coexistence and respect for others. It is in this spirit that my country believes in and actively commits itself to the promotion of intercultural and interreligious dialogue, as a fundamental instrument to prevent tensions and conflicts arising from intolerance and to promote peace based on the principles of respect for fundamental human rights, justice and international cooperation.