General Women, Peace and Security

A necessary condition to carry out these objectives is integration on equal terms of almost half the world population: women. The Tenth Anniversary of Resolution 1325, "Women, Peace and Security", should bring us to consolidate gender equality in the public and institutional scopes, as well as in the economic, social and cultural spheres.

A fundamental element of this Resolution is the establishment of a new entity to be known as UN women, which will be operational stating from 1 January 2011.

We join others in welcoming the adoption of the General Assembly Resolution 64/289 on System Wide Coherence that among other things, established the UN Women. It is our hope that the UN Women will receive the required support from the International Community and the entire UN System to deliver on its mandate. Tanzania congratulates Ms. Michelle Bachelet, for her appointment to head the UN Women.

Having just concluded a successful MDG Summit. I would like to congratulate the Secretary General, His Excellency Ban Ki-moon for his leadership, dedication and commitment to the work of the Organization and for the new momentum he is bringing towards the achievement of the MDGs.

The Maldives has made great strides in eliminating poverty, in education, and in improving mortality rates among both mothers and infants. However, we have yet to make significant gains in areas for the empowerment of women.

Most important among the challenges facing our world is the attainment of the MDGs by the year 2015. We know that many among us have exerted huge and outstanding efforts to that end.

Botswana welcomes the important milestones achieved in the strengthening of the UN's operational activities for development, improvement of funding for development related activities, as well as strengthening the institutional framework for the gender architecture through the creation of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women.

Рарua New Guinea applauds the commitment of US$40 billion for poverty alleviation, especially to improve the health of children and women. It is our hope that this is а new resource envelope and not repackaged old commitments.

As we intensify our poverty reduction efforts at home we plan to focus more on issues of gender equality and the empowerment of women as the critical part of success. My government is confident that the newly created UN-Women will be an important partner in this endeavor.

On our part, my Government has recommitted itself, at the summit, to the acceleration of our efforts towards poverty reduction, gender equality and environmental sustainability, the three MDGs where we are lagging behind.