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Today, on International Women’s Day, we have thousands of meetings like this one – meetings that clearly proclaim the need for gender equality. 

And in our world, all UN organizations and most of the governments everywhere, most of the institutions everywhere, have adopted gender equality as a policy with programmes to implement that policy and with an enormous amount of public interventions in which most women and men proclaim that commitment to gender equality. 

Thank you very much Mr. President [Kenyatta] for your kind words.

This has been an extremely positive visit and our discussions have been extremely constructive. They have allowed us to express a common perspective to all the problems that Kenya and the international community are facing today. 

It gives me pleasure to greet this TICAD VI thematic session on social stability for shared prosperity. 

I thank Her Excellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, for co-chairing this session with the United Nations.  I also commend His Excellency, President Idriss Deby, Chairperson of the African Union, for his leadership. 

Reinforcing the links between peace, security, sustainable development, good governance, human rights and environmental stewardship has always been a priority for the United Nations.

It is a pleasure to greet the first TICAD summit to take place on the African continent. 

I thank His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya for hosting this important gathering.  

I commend the African Union for its strong ownership.

And I thank His Excellency Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan for his generous support and leadership for African development.

The timing of this Summit is ideal. 

Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen,

I commend His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya for co-organizing this important event and for his able chairpersonship of the African Peer Review Mechanism.

Good governance is at the heart of the work of the United Nations. Without good governance, peace, security, development and human rights can rarely be sustained.

Governance is also the lifeblood of any society.