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Foreign Minister Highlights UN Role in World Peacekeeping

Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
NEWS
September 25, 2004
Posted to the web September 27, 2004
Luanda
Angolan foreign minister João Miranda highlighted today in New York (USA) the
role of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in guaranteeing peace and
security in the world.
Addressing the UN 59th General Assembly, Joao Miranda said that due to the
horrors of violence, poverty and famine, the UN assembly members are once again
faced with the hard tasks of evaluating the implementation of their decisions
and seek new solutions to the problems afflicting millions of people.
"These solutions necessarily require mechanisms of international cooperation,"
he stated.
The United Nations, he also said, should remain the State's most relevant
mechanism to face the world's new challenges that have to do with guaranteeing
peace, security, fight terrorism, famine, human rights violations,
deterioration of environment, transnational organised crime, drugs trafficking
and Hiv/Aids.
Meanwhile, Joao Miranda stated that the difficulties facing the United Nations
in dealing with situations that seriously shook the international security of
late have exposed the weaknesses of its structures and functioning.
He said it is high time the United Nations were reformed, adjusting it to the
challenges of the world's today conjuncture, characterised by globalisation.

   

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