The United Nations could not continue to abdicate its responsibility for ensuring that those staff members were recognized for their contributions.

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.

The international community cannot abdicate from its responsibility for a swift and effective reaction to crisis situations, in addition to the prevention of discrimination and assistance to those who suffer from its effects, because such action in some instances can result in avoiding crisis.

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.

In this context, it seemed necessary to the Government of Gabon not to abdicate but to refocus the role of the State. A new direction has been reflected, inter alia, through an ambitious programme of liberalization of economic activities on the one hand and on the other by the privatization of large sectoral public enterprises.

In other parts of the world, regional organizations also play a positive role in conflict prevention and resolution. Yet the Security Council can never abdicate its primary responsibility for international peace and security. It must defend fundamental principles of international law. When regional peace efforts cannot produce results, or when regional action has become a part of the problem and, sadly, not of the solution, the Security Council must insist on assuming its primary role.

But this does not mean that we abdicate our engagement in this field. Like all other members of the international community, Canada has national interests at stake. We therefore expect the nuclear weapon States to meet their responsibilities and to deliver on their commitment. For our part, we will continue to contribute through the NPT, the CTBT and the IAEA, and through the negotiation hopefully soon of an effective fissile material cut off treaty.