“The United Nations is at the centre of some of the most difficult and important challenges the United Kingdom and the world face today: how do we halve extreme poverty and hunger and achieve the other Millennium Development Goals by 2015; how do we end the conflict in Darfur that has cost 250,000 lives and driven 2 million from their homes; how do we find a global solution to the problem of climate change? The United Kingdom, through its mission here in New York, plays a prominent role in trying to find answers to these questions and to many others that the United Nations addresses in promoting peace and security, development, and human rights.
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Marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband said:
'In the past 60 years countless campaigners all around the world have put their lives and wellbeing at risk to uphold the values of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today's anniversary is a fitting moment to pay tribute to them. It is through their determination to see the rights it enshrines upheld that the declaration has been given strength.
The British Government will always be on the side of human rights. The declaration will serve as our guide.'
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