UN General Assembly
2020

Heads of State and Government, Mr. Volkan Bozkir, President of the United Nations General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session, Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Greetings to you all. Seventy-five years ago, 51 countries signed the Charter of the United Nations, hoping to rid the world of war and ensure respect for the dignity and fundamental rights of people with justice, social progress and freedom. As a founding Member State, Honduras has supported these lofty goals from the very beginning. We were all moved by the consequences of the two great World Wars and sought, back then, to show the best of our human species by uniting in this global forum, creating this Organization, which is the largest international organization in the world today. In the same way, now that we are immersed in a new global crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we must seek new ideas and new consensus and to be more creative and wiser in order to make the purposes and principles set forth in 1945 a reality.