We are also looking at how to improve the effectiveness of our field operations.

We are phasing down in Liberia as we speak.

And many of our partners bring valuable capabilities and expertise to our operations.

The impact on our humanitarian operations has been dramatic.

Secondly, especially in our operations on the ground, the United Nations system must function in a coherent fashion.

We cannot accept that low levels of funding impede our operations in so many places.

We are discussing handing over operations in places in southern Sudan to our development colleagues in the course of next year.

But we need immediate and generous support even before that  especially with the approach of the rainy season, which threatens to impede our operations.

Our process for doing this is essentially transforming biotechnology and pharmacology into an information technology, helping us discover and evaluate drugs faster, more cheaply and more effectively.

The need for the physical presence of the United Nations system and its sustained engagement in our development process is now more compelling than ever.

You see this inability to synchronize in our operations in Iraq and in Afghanistan, across our foreign policy, and in our response to Katrina.

There can be no human security unless this reality of interconnectedness is taken into proper consideration in all our policy and decision making processes.

They come from EU member states and non EU countries that also take part in our operations, including Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine, Turkey and the United States.

But we must realize that their work and their lives are under increasing threat and that our operations can now be disrupted completely by renewed conflict any day, and anywhere, in Darfur.

Finally, as all of the EU s 27 member states are now trying to reduce public spending in sustainable ways, financing for military operations, without which nothing is possible, requires a new approach.

We also launched a new phase in our relations with partner countries opportunities for more individualized cooperation, a greater emphasis on defense reform, and a stronger focus on the Caucasus and Central Asia. Furthermore, we welcomed the interest shown by Russia and Ukraine in contributing to Active Endeavor, our anti terrorist naval operation in the Mediterranean, as another sign of the growing strategic value of our partnership with these countries.

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