The Organization has provided electoral assistance to dozens of nations. United Nations legal officers are helping nations establish sound legal frameworks and reliable judicial systems. United Nations police experts, often as part of peace-keeping operations, are training police forces in the basics of police work and the rudiments of human rights. Our human rights field operations are responding to requests for help in setting up non-governmental organizations for the promotion and protection of human rights. Good governance is also part of our work for peace.
Good governance is perhaps the most effective form of conflict prevention.
It is also the key to post-conflict reconstruction. It promotes reconciliation and helps to consolidate peace. So far I have been speaking about good governance at the level of individual countries, which I know is the main concern of this conference. And at the heart of global governance, I need hardly tell you, is the United Nations system. International rules already extend to virtually every field of human endeavour, through more than 500 multilateral treaties that have been deposited with the United Nations.