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Annual overview report for 2004/05 - E/2005/63
Resolution - GA Res. 49/97
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The urgency of a collective response
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7. Member States and the communities within them bear the primary responsibility for action to implement the Millennium Declaration. They hold the key to international cooperation that truly delivers. Global intergovernmental cooperation cannot answer every challenge. The UN system alone cannot and should not deal with every international issue. Nonetheless, the UN system can serve as an essential agent of global progress—when it acts with a clear sense of its comparative advantages and with unity of purpose, and when its actions have genuine, far-sighted political support.
8. The world has witnessed important manifestations of unity and political will when nations have acted together, through the UN system, to advance peace and security; address humanitarian crises; develop common frameworks for economic, trade and financial cooperation; and effectively manage many other important areas of interdependence. Such creativity and political will are needed now more than ever. The devastation caused by the recent tsunami in the Indian Ocean underscored the urgency and importance of collective and coordinated international action. The response of the international community shows that it can be challenged to act responsibly and generously.
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