UN General Assembly
2009

This General Assembly Hall is, in fact, the situation room of the entire world. It seems to me that over the years we here in this Hall have collectively understood and known what to do. The main thing now is to agree how to do it. We all need an effective tool. There is hope that we are already close to a common understanding of how and with what tool we can achieve our goals. For the international community to emerge from a series of multiple crises and to overcome multidimensional new threats, we must achieve a policy of partnership. Modern international relations are increasingly being built on the basis of horizontal networks that include all interested and constructive stakeholders in today’s world — States, international organizations, civil society and the private sector. Partnerships are a mechanism of engagement that has no reasonable alternative in the context of a pluralistic and contradictory world. One particular political factor that raises hope that that approach is a realistic instrument is an emerging meeting of minds — involving various forces