{"id":208367,"date":"2009-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=208367"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:33:54","slug":"auto-insert-208367","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-208367\/","title":{"rendered":"GA President’s closing statement to 63rd session – Press release (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sixty-third General Assembly <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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General Assembly President Says United Nations Must Be Urgently ‘Reinvented’,<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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As Time for Reform Has Passed, in Closing Statement to 63<\/u><\/strong><\/span>rd<\/u><\/sup><\/strong><\/span> session<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Responsibility to Protect, System-Wide Coherence, Assembly Revitalization,<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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High-Level Dialogue on Development among Issues Addressed in Assembly Texts<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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With the world and its peoples facing unprecedented challenges, outgoing General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann today decried blatant inequality in the international system, and urged Member States to generate the political will to tackle poverty, provide safety nets for vulnerable countries and, even more importantly, to reinvent the United Nations and its major organs.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Describing the Assembly’s sixty-third session as “one of the most turbulent in years”, as it had taken place in the shadow of a massive global financial contraction and economic recession, deepening impact of climate change and ongoing food shortages, Mr. d’Escoto said that, while the 192-member body had successfully addressed some of those issues:  “If we fail to make solidarity and a sense of social and environmental responsibility the main driving force behind our human society, then, quite simply, we will not survive.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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He expressed satisfaction that during his tenure the Assembly had been able to carry out its agenda and remain attuned to events of international relevance not on its work programme, such as the financial and economic crisis, the recent coup d’état in Honduras, and “the Israeli aggression against Gaza”, at the beginning of the year.  At the same time, inertia on the Palestinian issue had been “my greatest frustration this year”, he <\/span>said<\/a>.  Indeed, the Security Council’s apparent indifference to Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza had been “disgraceful”.  With the humanitarian situation in Gaza threatening to deteriorate even further, now was the time to demonstrate “with action and not words, a true commitment to the responsibility to protect”.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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