Statement of the President, September 20, 2016

It is my hope that in collaboration with Member States and the wider UN community, it will also prove possible over coming months to [...] strengthen the UN’s peace and security pillar by enhancing the UN ability to prevent and respond to conflicts and threats; [...] to advance the ‘sustaining peace’ agenda as fundamental to the UN’s engagement across peace and security, development, and human rights [...], to combat discrimination, and to further the realization of human rights, so that all people are able to live free and equal in dignity and rights, [...] to strive for greater consensus on disarmament and non-proliferation, and to work towards transforming the UN itself by addressing the need for gender equality and parity and better geographical balance [...].