UN General Assembly
2008

Economic and financial governance is being strengthened, sanctioned by the adoption on 28 July 2008, by the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, of the conclusions of the first review of the formal programme, which should lead our country to the completion point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initiative. Working together with all actors in the nation, the Guinean Government remains firmly committed to shouldering its full share of responsibility in tackling the huge challenges posed by HIV/AIDS, drugs, lack of security, terrorism, the illicit circulation of light weapons and the structural causes underlying clandestine immigration. The eradication of poverty, maintenance of peace, institutional stability and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms lie at the heart of our national priorities. Sixty-three years after the establishment of the United Nations, eight years after the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration and at the midpoint towards the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, my country, Guinea, believes in the future of a world of greater solidarity, justice and fairness, thus safer in the context of a true