We are facing many crises

The 64th opening of the General Assembly asks us to rise to an exceptional moment. We are facing many crises – food, energy, recession, and pandemic flu – occurring all at once. If ever there were a time to act in a spirit of renewed multilateralism, a time to put the “united” back into the United Nations, it is now.

[…] And that is what we are doing, as action on three issues of historic consequence demonstrates. […] the threat of catastrophic climate change, […] nuclear disarmament, [and] turning the corner to recovery (from financial Recession).

Project-Syndicate, Ban Ki-moon