UN General Assembly
2000

priority should be to redefine the role of each institution and to avoid any duplication of effort in a field where the United Nations should play a leading role. It is equally important to give responsibility to the countries receiving aid by demanding that funds be used efficiently or requiring good governance. In this regard I should like to emphasize that the fight against corruption should be a priority of all our Governments. The Millennium Declaration states clearly that the principal challenge today is to ensure that globalization becomes a positive reality for the entire population of the world, and not a new factor of exclusion. Only the United Nations is in a position to promote the partnership for change that Kofi Annan referred to in his report entitled “We the peoples”. Poverty, sadly, is also closely linked to infection and to contagious diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, which cause millions of deaths every year and which, in Africa, are laying waste to an entire generation and posing a tragic threat to future