“The current lack of progress in the area of aids to development and trade is threatening everyone’s security and welfare”, while conversely “the accomplishment” of the UN reform process “promises economic progress, poverty relief, less terrorism and more social harmony”. It was said by mgr. Celestino Migliore, observer of the Holy See to the UN, as he spoke at the 61st session of the general assembly of the United Nations, which took place in New York yesterday. In the text published today by the newsroom of the Holy See, the Vatican delegate makes an invitation to “keep lobbying for reforming” the UN, by changing “the existing facilities to respond to global needs”. Amidst the urgencies, Migliore mentions “the importance of preventing conflict” and expresses “deep concern” for the “stagnation of the multilateral negotiations on disarmament and non proliferation” of nuclear weapons. “The whole system of the United Nations wishes the observer of the Holy See to the UN should seize the opportunity to promote connections between disarmament, development and humanitarian worries, and work hard towards strategies and schemes that will reduce the use of weapons and armed violence”.
