Ending conflict in #DRC, #Sudan, lifting sanctions against #Zimbabwe key priorities for #Angola.
It is with a very particular sense of honour that I address you and all the participants in this 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which is taking place within a very worrying international context, where tensions in international relations are worsening due to the multiplicity of conflicts of different natures and intensities in various parts of our planet.
It is understandable, of course, that in an environment of such instability and insecurity, it is much more challenging to achieve the major Sustainable Development Goals and others set by this organisation, so that we can achieve all the goals we have set ourselves.
Since the creation of the United Nations, after the end of the Second World War, the peoples of our planet have longed for peaceful coexistence at a global level, believing that any episodes that could jeopardise harmony, peace and universal security would be the object of careful attention and preventive measures taken within the framework of our organisation, so that they would not degenerate into conflicts and wars that would bring back to life the distressing moments experienced during the period from 1939 to 1945.
Almost eight decades on, the objective observation we can make today is that not only has this perspective not been realised, but we seem to be moving away from the founding purposes of the United Nations.
Faced with this reality, we need to consider where we have failed and what collective measures we should take to make the United Nations' intervention more active in the search for solutions that contribute to conflict prevention, the strengthening of world peace and security, the strengthening of trade and international co-operation, to ensure the prosperity of nations and the wellbeing of the peoples of our planet.
Today we are witnessing an attempt to undermine, ignore or even replace the role and importance of the United Nations in resolving the major issues that afflict humanity, particularly those that have to do with universal peace and security.
In this context, there is no more appropriate stage than this Magna Assembly to reverse this reality and assume the urgent need to reform this institution, placing special emphasis on adapting the Security Council to the realities of the contemporary world.
Its current format and composition still reflect the reality of the post-war period, far outstripped by the time and development of other regions of the planet, many of them colonised countries that are now independent members of the United Nations.
The reform of the United Nations Security Council and of the international financial institutions that emerged from Brettonwoods is urgent and necessary in order to give a voice to the countries of the global south, namely Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.
