UN General Assembly
2012

Rather, it is in the structure of the Organization that we see a need for some things to be adjusted. The reason appears clear to many of those of us who are small both physically and politically. The current structure appears far too often to be the deep-seated cause of the headline news I referred to. We see it as a twentieth- century structure designed to meet twentieth-century realities. It is personified in the 64 years of suffering by the ordinary people of Palestine, and in all other desperate situations in which the root causes of conflict and confrontation are still buried in the past century. Simply put, that must change. In our globalized world, we are all equally interdependent and equally responsible. But, like many other members in the Assembly, we believe that the current structure does not truly reflect those realities. As such, it needs adjusting so that ancient political fault lines are repaired. The form we hope it will increasingly take should resemble that of some regions today that operate on