And we would want to interact with them, hear their views before the heads of State come to New York in September for the Millennium Summit again to give us their marching orders and to discuss the United Nations in the twenty-first century. And just as your group is creating closer links and working relationship between business and Congress, so are we at the United Nations building a new partnership with the private sector. 26 May 2000 also believe the only way the United Nations can achieve this objective and expand this capacity and rate is by working in such partnerships. We cannot expect governments to do it all, we cannot expect governments to give us all the money we need to do what we ought to do and this is why we have entered into these useful partnerships with the private sector. I think you have seen some of the results, our work with the private sector, with the foundations and universities.
Business depends upon an understanding of the rules that legislators help create.
In this country, I suppose the link between trade and legislation has never been more evident to the general public than yesterday's vote in Congress on United States trade relations with China. If we need these rules at the national level, we also require them at the international level. But, on the multilateral level too, it is vital to have clear, simple rules that everyone knows and everyone applies. What is not so widely known is that many of the rules that exist today, along with institutions to manage them, fall within the United Nations system. Commercial airlines have to fly across borders, and to land in case of emergency, thanks to agreements negotiated by the International Civil Aviation Organization.