UN General Assembly
2013

shining example. I wish we would all listen to “Madiba” more often. On Syria, we should follow the Secretary- General’s lead and make peace and justice a reality. Investing in the United Nations is an investment in our common future. We are shareholders with a long-term interest. We need to have the instruments for peace, justice and development ready for the moment that they can help avert catastrophe. That is why we invested in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has now proved crucial in the Syrian crisis. That is why we should invest in the legitimacy and effectiveness of the Security Council. That is why we should work as hard as we can to come up with a clear and ambitious post-2015 sustainable development agenda. We are all in this together; we should invest together in our United Nations.