Ukraine approaches with full responsibility the issues of poverty eradication, providing high- quality education, developing proper conditions for preservation of environment, improving maternal health and reducing child mortality, curbing HIV/ AIDS and tuberculosis, and ensuring gender equality.
The United Nations should not be an observer but an architect of events. For this to happen, it urgently needs to undergo a comprehensive reform. Ukraine welcomes the progress we see in organizational consolidation of the UN, in particular in the areas of gender equality and peace-building.