It is perhaps the first highest level intergovernmental document, which has called for the development of strong UN partnerships with the private sector and with civil society organizations in pursuit of development and poverty eradication. Any other process on such partnerships, no matter how well meaning, is not truly a UN initiative. To put the whole debate in its true perspective, I would like to begin my statement by reaffirming the primacy of Governments in the United Nations. We are here in the General Assembly of the UN as the representatives of Governments, of Peoples and of States. At the recently held Millennium Summit, our leaders rededicated themselves to uphold these principles of the UN Charter.
States are the principal organizations constituted by the people.
The overall organizational structure of the international relations is the inter-State System. It has been universally recognized that there is no substitute for States. It is particularly true in the age of globalization. If States are diminished, so will this Organization be. The United Nations and all its 189 Member States must endeavour to protect and preserve the primacy of the entity we know as the State for whose sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence have been enshrined in the Charter and in the International law.