The world's hopes for you are the same as those for anyother country

The inspection teams are doing their work, seeking toverify the correctness and completeness of that declaration,and to ensure that any remaining weapons of mass destructionare destroyed. It is essential, if Iraq is to be put backon the path to peace and prosperity, that this work ofdisarmament be done Rosetta Stone V3 thoroughly and completely. You cannothope to see the sanctions lifted so long as your governmentretains weapons of mass destruction. I would be deceivingyou if I were to suggest otherwise.Meanwhile, the UnitedNations oil-for-food programme continues to give you thehelp you need, so long as economic sanctions are in force.But we all hope to see you delivered from that need freedfrom sanctions, from the threat of war, and from oppression.The world's hopes for you are the same as those for anyother country. Everyone wants to see you enjoy the rightsand opportunities of our age free to speak your minds,raise your children and pursue your dreams. I am notforgetting the many other parts of the world where peace andsecurity are threatened. From Kashmir to Colombia, fromNepal to Somalia, there are all too many volatile situationsthat the United Nations follows anxiously, because peopleare suffering, and because hostilities could escalate at anytime.But even if they were all to be resolved, we wouldonly be clearing the decks for the long-term work at hand x2013,the struggle against poverty and its attendant ills,disease, illiteracy and pollution, the struggle fordemocracy and human rights, the struggle for development, inall its forms. In this struggle, yesterday's adversariesmust become today's allies. We need to shift our mentalgeography, and understand that today, more than ever before,the global interest is the national interest. We don'tneed a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, or whichway our world is headed in the new century. The informationexists. Indeed, the World Service has already reported onit. We Rosetta Stone Latin America Spanish know, for instance, that even the most modestscenarios of population growth will mean a dramatic increasein demand for social services, and demands on our naturalenvironment especially in the cities of the developingworld, where most of that growth is expected. And we knowthat, even if we meet agreed goals for reducing greenhousegas emissions, global warming will bring extreme weather andother havoc in our lifetime. But the script is not yetfinalised. There is still time to bequeath to our children aworld of choices, not constraints. I believe we now havean agenda for the new century, in which all people canrecognise their needs and aspirations.That agenda is theMillennium Declaration, on which all the world's leadersagreed, two years ago, when they assembled at the UnitedNations for the Millennium Summit. It brings together allthe conclusions of the great world conferences of the pastdecade.And the most immediate and urgent part of it isthe Millennium Development Goals a set of clear targetsfor such basic tasks as reducing extreme poverty, achievinguniversal primary education, and halting the spread of AIDS,malaria and other deadly diseases.These are minimum,achievable goals, with a clear deadline: 2015 now barelytwelve years away. They are achievable by people likeyou, in every country, coming together and takingaction.This week we have celebrated Human Rights Day x2013,the day when we pledge to respect the inherent rights ofeach individual human being.But individuals do not onlyhave rights. They also have great power, when they cometogether and work for a cause. Again and again, in recentyears, we have seen Governments, corporations and other bigpowers obliged to re-think and adjust their policies underpressure from civil society movements. We have seen damsabandoned, roads diverted, neighbourhoods preserved. Wehave seen poor countries' debts cancelled or re-scheduled.We have seen a convention against landmines adopted.We have seen the Statute of the International Criminalcourt come into force. We have seen pharmaceuticalcompanies agree to lower their prices, to bring treatmentwithin the reach of people living with HIV and AIDS in poorcountries. And we have even seen some oil companies spendmoney on cleaning up the environment, and on social servicesfor the communities surrounding their oil wells. None ofthese things would have happened, unless thousands andthousands of people, often in many different countries, hadcome together to assert their rights, and to agitate forchange.That is the kind of movement we need to achieveour Millennium Goals a movement in which you, the peoplesof the world, become Rosetta Stone Arabic fully and passionately engaged. Andthe most important thing we at the United Nations cancontribute is to keep you informed. We need to tell youwhat your leaders have promised in your name, and what musthappen, in every government and every society, if thosepromises are to be kept so that you can keep your ownscorecard of your country's performance.