Experience what it is like to be a 'Blue Helmet' by following one United Nations peacekeeper as she receives training in her home country of Ghana and then deploys to Lebanon as part of a multinational force.

On the afternoon of 19 August 2003, the United Nations headquarters in the Canal Hotel in Baghdad was badly damaged by a devastating truck bomb attack. 

The blast resulted in the death of 22 people, including the then High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello. The bomb was targeting the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI). 

If you look at the hard data, UN peacekeeping missions succeed most of the time. They significantly reduce civilian casualties, shorten conflicts, and help make peace agreements stick.

In two thirds of completed missions since the Cold War, UN peacekeepers, who are recruited from many different countries around the world, have succeeded in fulfilling their mandate.

我相信，联合国，我们的联合国，将继续引领创新以实现《联合国宪章》所述“促成大自由中之社会进步及较善之民生”的目标。

值此联合国成立70周年之际，我们应对过去的工作进行评估，肯定所取得的成就，同时认清仍旧存在的问题。毋庸置疑，在过去七十年间，联合国让世界变得更美好。我们成功让全世界认识到了多元化和多样性的巨大价值。我们也使世界各国首次在人类平等问题上达成共识，这是史无前例的。没有任何一个种族或文化可以单独代表人类文明。