” “”Development and the defence of human rights" are the essential mainstays for "building peace in the world”. This was stated yesterday, as he spoke in New York at the 61st General Assembly of the UN, by mgr. Giovanni Lajolo, president of the Governorship of Vatican City. Among the fundamental human rights, the archbishop defines as "primary" the right to life with the "reassertion of its sacredness" and the "protection of life from the start to its natural end”; the "right to religious freedom" and the right "to free thinking and freedom of speech”. “Every government specified mgr. Lajolo must understand that the violation" of these rights "cannot be removed from the attention of the international community under the pretext of the inviolability of the internal affairs of a State". As he insisted on the support of the Holy See to the UN and to the "ongoing reforms" to make this body more and more effective, the Vatican delegate highlighted that "too often, the international organisations take action" after "a war has broken out", and denounced the slowness of the international community in the Lebanese crisis: “Resolution 1701 of the Security Council of August 11th 2006 could have been adopted one month earlier”.” “
