Children have a right to be participants in mapping out their own future.
They have a right to their own beliefs and to utter them. We as delegates representing independent entities of the international community have met, discussed and concluded hundreds of international conferences in the past. Yet we have been unable to combat the growing menaces that threaten peace at every level and jeoparadize the young. We shall therefore pledge this afternoon not to confine this august assembly to just another gathering. Every word spoken today needs to be urgently translated into action.