UN General Assembly
2001

recruitment into the armed forces, discrimination against women, and so forth, the international community’s attention has been diverted by unusual events such as the unprecedented terrorist act of 11 September 2001. The acts carried out against the United States of America on 11 September were undoubtedly attacks against the United Nations. The prevailing atmosphere of the current session of the General Assembly, a year after the adoption of the Millennium Declaration by an unprecedented attendance of 147 heads of State and Government and a total of 189 Member States, and the temporary postponement until next year of the General Assembly’s special session on children are eloquent examples, among others, of the challenge and the dilemma faced by the United Nations. In that context, we reiterate the most vigorous condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and facets, and we reaffirm the Republic of Equatorial Guinea’s full support for and solidarity with the people and 30 Government of the United States of America at this painful and worrisome time, which will be difficult to forget. The country’s competent constitutional organs are