” “Yesterday, the United Nations, convened in New York for the 61st session of the General Assembly, launched Unitaid, an international financial plan to help buy drugs. The initiative is supported by Brazil, Chile, France, Norway and the United Kingdom, but "many countries can easily join in", wished the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Unitaid aims at promoting access to drags and diagnostic aids to fight Hiv/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis in the developing countries. "It can help explained Annan reduce the cost of quality drugs and diagnostic aids and speed up the pace at which they are made available". At the same time, they also launched the UN Global Anti-Terrorism Strategy. Sheida Heikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, chair of the Assembly, stated that "the UN should play a more proactive role in the sphere of armed conflict and make progress in the area of conflict prevention". "We must look at the potential causes of tension across the world the chair said starting from the issues of disarmament and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The adoption of the UN Global Anti-Terrorism Strategy is an epoch-making step forward in this sense".” “
