UN General Assembly
2011

session, “The role of mediation in the settlement of disputes by peaceful means”, calls for more creative and feasible peaceful multilateral solutions to many of our long-standing disputes that, unless resolved peacefully, will have far more extensive global consequences. The settlement of disputes by peaceful means is central to the United Nations system, as enshrined in the United Nations Charter and in numerous international conventions and treaties. In that context, we, like many others, encourage our brothers and sisters in Israel and Palestine to continue the peaceful negotiations that will ensure regional and global stability. We also call upon the United Nations to visit the framework with which it fulfils its mediation mandates and to develop closer partnerships with mediation actors within regional groups. To succeed as responsible nations of this global village, we must continue to cultivate an environment that thwarts the seeds of bitterness, hatred and vengeance. In establishing the United Nations in 1945, many nations, great and small, entrusted it with the responsibility to assist in maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations