The United Nations, and the General Assembly, cannot abdicate the responsibility to secure fulfilment of the development goals and commitments that have been undertaken.

The Personal and Professional Development (P2D) training has helped staff take more control of their futures but UNICEF should not abdicate its responsibility to promote staff development.

Our greeting is committed because we all bear the responsibility, which we cannot abdicate, of being the masters of our own lives and the architects of our own futures.

Foreign ministries around the world should be equally nervous. Unless the US can get its fiscal house in order, it will be forced to abdicate leadership on a wide range of critical global issues.

As long as Greece s finances are propped up by international creditors, the country s policymakers will be able to abdicate their responsibility to manage the provision of public goods like education, health care, national security, and infrastructure. They will also face few incentives to put in place a properly functioning system to collect taxes.