UN General Assembly
2010

Mr. President, let me first convey on my own behalf and on behalf of the Republic of Paraguay our wishes for every success in your sensitive and important function at the helm of the General Assembly at its sixty-fifth session. I would also like to express my delegation’s recognition of Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the Assembly at the sixty-fourth session, for the significant achievements made. Paraguayan democracy has completed its transition, begun 21 years ago, with the transfer of 10-55396 14 power from one political force to another in recent elections held under international observation. In that way we have consolidated a process of strengthening public freedoms, thereby affirming that those freedoms are fully guaranteed in my country today. Paraguay comes to this general debate reaffirming its importance and calling for progress in strengthening the United Nations as the body capable of representing the interests of all Member States in the urgent quest for a fairer, more united and equitable world, guaranteed by the full force of international law. We are very pleased that some great Powers have