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"Secretary-General, Presidents, our support for the choice made by the United Nations, of you and your colleagues, foremost among them Sergio Vieira de Mello, is testimony to the confidence that we have in you and the high regard in which we hold you. We also wanted to thank you for the work that you do at the head of this organisation and for helping to restore and reinforce its prestige. For all of this, we thank you.
Of course, in choosing you we also chose your colleagues, all of those who paid with their lives to fulfil their chosen role in the service of the most just and noble of causes. To the families of those who are no longer with us, we wish to convey our solidarity and pay our respects, and our thoughts and good wishes also go to all of those who were injured and continue to endure physical suffering.
You have just spoken about the problems of immigration, Secretary-General. You were right to do so. Of course, this is the utopia that will help the world to move forward and we are all aware of this. If you believe, however, that the problems associated with immigration will be resolved solely by ensuring that the developed countries open their borders, you are mistaken. Obviously this is necessary, but it is not the answer to the problem.
I should have liked, Secretary-General – but probably this was implicit in your comments – to hear you condemn the economic consequences of globalisation and the imbalance that this creates between developed and developing countries.
I should also have liked, Secretary-General, to hear you express the wish that developed countries would increase their aid, because the only way – or at least the main and most pressing way – to resolve the problem is firstly to give all of those who are suffering in developing countries the means to live a normal life. And that is why I regret the fact that the developed countries are all so reticent and overcautious in this regard. At one time, General De Gaulle said that if all of us had devoted 1% of GDP to this problem it would have been to a large extent resolved. Well, it is not too late to do so. And as well as applauding you, as you so richly deserve, perhaps all of those who are here, and in particular those who hold office through their parties in the governments of Western Europe, might be inspired to act on these resolutions."@en1
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