UN General Assembly
2007

by coordinating our efforts and responding collectively. We are pleased that, in our determination to defeat terrorism, victims and their families have not been forgotten, and that the international community continues to urge respect for them. I believe that this is a well deserved acknowledgement and that without it the strategy against global terrorism would be incomplete. Spain participates in peacekeeping operations authorized and mandated by the Security Council, in Lebanon, Afghanistan and the Balkans. Allow me, here in the General Assembly, to express my gratitude to the Spanish armed forces, the State security forces and others engaged in cooperative efforts for their work and solidarity in favour of peace. In particular, I pay heartfelt tribute to those Spaniards who have lost their lives in this effort and to their families and friends; only four days ago two Spanish soldiers died in Afghanistan. To assist in the logistics of peacekeeping operations, Spain has offered to establish a United Nations support base in Quart de Poblet in Valencia. A communications centre will be established there for the