Fight against new challenges and threats

Responding to global threats and challenges

58 16. Responding to global threats and challenges

57 145. Responding to global threats and challenges

New challenges and threats heightened international concern about weapons of mass destruction.

I would like to enumerate the threats and challenges we are facing today.

We need NATO and NATO needs us in order to face common threats and challenges.

Perceptions, threats and challenges obviously change over time, and they will continue to do so.

The threats and challenges referred to in the Secretary General's report are numerous and multifaceted.

The interrelatedness of the threats had been noted by the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, which had stated that today, more than ever before, security threats were interrelated.

But transnational threats demand multinational solutions, and our partnerships help us to address common challenges.

Finally, we commend the efforts by the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

Stressing that multilateralism and multilateral processes are essential tools in addressing the common threats and challenges

Once implemented, those decisions will strengthen our ability to cope with current global threats and challenges.

The terrorist attacks in New York and elsewhere have brought new global threats and challenges to light.

8. We recognize that current developments and circumstances require that we urgently build consensus on major threats and challenges. We commit ourselves to translating that consensus into concrete action, including addressing the root causes of those threats and challenges with resolve and determination.

The President Afghanistan continues to face serious threats and challenges, ranging from security development to humanitarian assistance.

Among the most serious global challenges and threats are terrorism, drug trafficking and the modern day slave trade.

We agree that current developments and circumstances require that we urgently build consensus on major threats and challenges.

The report of the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change highlighted threats to international security from which no State or region of the world is immune.

Third, there is a need to address economic and social challenges, threats and crises as and when they occur.

Poverty, hunger, preventable and curable diseases, illiteracy, drugs and natural disasters are other threats and challenges facing today's world.

Terrorism is one of the gravest threats to international peace and security, as the High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change reiterated in its report to the Secretary General.

Gender specific threats to women and girls compound the challenges of ensuring their protection and the delivery of aid.

The importance of these types of programmes was recognized by the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.

The objective we seek in disarmament is to tackle threats to global security and find solutions to existing challenges.

That declaration reminds us that the threats and challenges facing the world require a collective understanding and a collective response.

Antigua and Barbuda fully believes that in order to respond to global threats and challenges, United Nations reform must be multifaceted.

The numerous challenges and threats posed by the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons are serious, with devastating consequences.

But the recent report of the UN Secretary General s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change broke that rule.

In this context, the Philippines will endorse the recommendation of the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change that

New threats to security represent growing challenges to the ability of the international system to maintain international peace and security.

They are relevant because the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change worked for a year on collective security.

Indeed, in an unpredictable world, where old threats are compounded by new challenges, policymakers cannot disregard hard power.

The Krakow Initiative is an important and practical element of strengthening and adjusting international structures and mechanisms to oppose such challenges and threats.

Department on Counteracting Threats and Challenges of the CSTO Secretariat coordinates activities directed at the fullfillment of the tasks mentioned above.

As a community of nations faced with fresh threats and challenges, we must reassert ourselves towards a new vision for mankind.

We all share the same responsibility to advance work in the disarmament machinery, as we all face the same threats and challenges.

In a world of interconnected threats and challenges, it is in each country's self interest that all of them are addressed effectively.

The summit outcome document, although far from perfect, outlines the reforms that this Organization could undertake to meet those threats and challenges.

Regional structures with such potential that are now operating effectively should play a mutually complementary role in facing new threats and challenges.

Affirming the coordinating and leading role of the United Nations in establishing a cohesive and effective system for responding to global threats and challenges,

As the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change has emphasized, it is necessary to ensure compliance with human rights norms and conventions.

No State can hope today to resolve on its own the common challenges and threats to the coexistence and well being of our peoples.

Taking note of the report of the High level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change entitled A more secure world our shared responsibility ,