We need a strong United Nations that can celebrate its sixtieth anniversary and concomitantly work to build a world that lives in peace and enjoys security and prosperity.

UNCTAD's mandate to analyse trade and development should be concomitantly strengthened. It should continue to serve as a forum for mobilizing consensus on development objectives and for bridging conceptual and perceptual gaps among various stakeholders.

The choice of future options needs to be viewed in the general context of sustainable development which dictates parallel and complementary actions and concomitantly call for awareness and changes in attitude right across the economy and society.

Of course, we must respond to both the weakening economy and financial instability in a virtual state of emergency. This is why stimulus packages and financial rescue plans were for the first time adopted concomitantly in Europe, the United States, and some large Asian countries.