Prime minister may i would like to begin by expressing my sincere condolences to the government and people of mexico, following the devastating earthquake. I want to reiterate my sump of these to those affected by the recent hurricanes in the caribbean. Our thoughts are with them all at this time. As we meet at this General Assembly, we faced challenges that go right to the heart of who we are as nations, challenges that test our values, our vision, and ours all to defend the rules and standards that underpin the security and prosperity of our fellow citizens. Speech herein my last year, many of these challenges do not recognize or respect geographical boundaries. I think of course of the terrorism that has struck so many of our countries, including my own five times this year. Threat,that terrorist the increasing numbers being drawn to extremist ideology, not driven byaces conflict and instability, but many online in their homes, thousands of miles away from those conflicts. I think of the climate change, which is depleting the climate that we leave to our children. I think of the challenges that come from the mass displacement of people. Many are refugees fleeing conflict and persecution. Others are economic migrants, for sea crossings in a desperate search for a better life for themselves and their children. Through this migration, we also see the challenges of economic inequality, between countries together withm weaknesses in the Global Trading system, in threatens to undermine support for the forces of liberalism and free trade that have done so much to propel global growth. It is pushing some countries toward protectionism in the belief that it best defends the interest of their own people. And as the global system struggles to adapt, we are confronted by a street by es flouting the unforgivable use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Regime against its own people and perhaps foremost in our minds today, the outrageous proliferation of Nuclear Weapons by north korea and the threat to use them. I believe the only way for us to respond to this vast array of challenges is to come together and defend the International Order that we have worked so hard to create and the valleys by which we stand. It is the fundamental values that we share, values of fairness, justice and human rights that have created the common call between nations to act together in our shared interest and form the multilateral system. Rulesbasedis system, which we have developed, including the institutions, the International Frameworks of free and fair trade, agreements, such as the Paris Climate Accord and laws and conventions, like the nonproliferation treaty, which enables a the defining purpose of the u. N. Charter is to maintain International Peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nations, to achieve International Cooperation in solving problems of an economic social, cultural or humanitarian makeup. And to be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of this common ends. I do not see these as vaulted ideals to be held for their own sake. These values and the rules they imbue our central to our national interest, to our security and prosperity. As the International System with the u. N. At its heart is the Unifying Force that allows countries to cooperate. If this system is found no longer capable of meeting the challenges of our time, then there will be a crisis of faith and multilateralism and Global Cooperation that will damage the interest of all our peoples. So those of us who hold true to our shared values, who hold true to that desire to defend the rules and high standards that have shaped and protected the world we live in, need to strive harder than ever to show that institutions like this United Nations can work for the countries that form of them and for the people we represent. This means reforming our United Nations and the wider International System, so it can prove its worth in helping us to meet the challenges of the 21st century. A means ensuring that those who flout the rules and spirit of our International System are held to account, that nations honor their responsibility and play their part in upholding and renewing a rulesbased International Order that can deliver prosperity and security for us all. First, we must ensure that our multilateral institutions can deliver the aspirations on which they were founded. Think of unhcr and those who were driven out of their homes, the opcw striving for a world free of chemical weapons. Unicef helping children in danger. These are all vital missions, whether the u. N. Surely has a unique role to play. Thats why the u. K. Has, over 70 years, been such a pioneering supporter of these organizations and more. We should also knowledge that throughout its history, the u. N. Has suffered from a seemingly unbridgeable gap between the nobility of its purposes and the effectiveness of its delivery. The need for multilateral action has never been greater, the shortcomings of the u. N. And its institutions risk undermining its members and donors. Even more importantly, they risk the confidence and faith that those who rely on the blue helmets, who rely on that sign i stand in front of today coming to their aid in the darkest of hours. So we must begin by supporting the ambitious reform agenda that secretarygeneral gutierrez is now leading to create a more agile, transparent and joined up organization. Much of this work will be a practical and unglamorous. It will require the u. N. To deliver better cooperation on the ground between agencies, remove competition for funding, and improve gender inequality. But it will also require real leadership to confront damaging issues that have the set the u. N. I welcome the secretarygenerals new circle of leadership on preventing sexual exportation and abuse in operations and im pleased to be part of this initiative. We, the nations of the u. N. , need to give the secretarygeneral are backing for these reforms. And as an outward looking Global Britain and the second biggest funder of the u. N. , the u. K. Will remain committed to spending on development and humanitarian support. We will use our military to support peacekeeping and our diplomats will continue to work, tackle conflict and support peacekeeping. The u. N. And its agencies must win our trust as proving that they can deliver. Thats why we remain generous in our funding, set aside 30 to be paid only to those parts of the u. N. That achieve sufficient results. This is about more than technical reform, important as they are. It is also about reforms that enable the United Nations to truly respond to the global challenges of the 21st century. At last years General Assembly, we undertook to do far more to resolve the challenges of refugee and migration flows. We agreed to develop global compacts to address the causes and the consequences that the mass people that we see today. This was an important step to enable us collectively to tackle this challenge of our time. So in the year ahead, as well as agreeing on the principles of these compacts, we must be sure that they can be applied in practice. On migration, our starting point must be that it can benefit the countries and migrants themselves, but only when it is safe, orderly, wellmanaged and legal. If we do not manage this effectively, we will fail both our own citizens and those taking these dangerous journeys and push more people into the curse of modern slavery at the hands of human traffickers and organized criminal groups who drive this inhuman industry. The steps that we are agreeing through these compacts alone will not be enough. For if people cannot find jobs, opportunity and hope for themselves and their families where they live, they will continue to look elsewhere. And so, as the United Nations, and members, we must work harder to continue to develop with the private sector and Financial Institutions to support the creation of jobs and livelihoods. For the truth is, despite our best efforts, we are not succeeding. We must do more. The same is true with terrorism. Again, the challenges we face today are vastly different from those of previous eras. When terrorists struck london and manchester this year, the world saw our cities come together in defiance. Our parliament carries on. Ariana grande came back to manchester and sang again. London bridge is bustling with people. Our communities came together at the mosque in north london. And londoners got back on the tube. The terrorists did not win for we will never let anyone destroy our way of life. [applause] but defiance alone is not enough. As leaders, we have all visited too many hospitals and seen too many innocent people murdered in our countries. In the last decade, hundreds of others have been killed by terrorists around the world. This is a truly global tragedy that is increasingly touching the lives of us all. This year is the 10th anniversary of the death of the woman who introduced me to my husband and who is known well to many of us in this United Nations. Benazir bhutto was brutally murdered by people who utterly reject the values that all of us here the United Nations stand for, in a country that has suffered more than most at the hands of terrorists, murdered for standing up for democracy, murdered for espousing tolerance, and murdered for being a woman. When i think of the hundreds of thousands of victims of terrorism in countries across the world, i think of their friends, their families, the communities devastated by this evil and i say enough is enough. So of course, we must continue to take the fight to these terrorist groups on the battlefield and the u. K. Will remain at the forefront of this effort, but also helping to build the capabilities of our alliances and our partners to better take on this challenge. And we must step up our efforts more than ever before to tackle the terrorist use of the internet. As the terrorists evolve, so must our cooperation. That is why today, for the first time in the u. N. , governments and industries through the Global Internet forum for counterterrorism will be coming together to do just that. The Tech Companies have made significant progress on this issue. But we need to go further and faster to reduce the time it takes to remove terrorist content online, and to reduce their efforts, to stop it from being uploaded in the first place. This is a major step in reclaiming the internet from those who would use it to do us harm. Ultimately, it is not just the terrorist themselves who we need to defeat. It is the extremist ideologies that fuel them. It is the ideologies that preach hatred and division and undermine our common humanity. We must be far more robust in identifying these ideologies and defeating them across all parts of our society. As i said in the aftermath of the attack on London Bridge the summer, we have to face the fact that this will require some difficult conversations. We all need to come together to take on this extremism and nurture the common value that will ultimately win out. These are the values of these United Nations. And yet, despite our best efforts, we, as nations and a United Nations, have not found a way or the means to truly take on this threat. So today, as i talk about you on reform, i asked the secretarygeneral to make this fight against terrorists and the ideologies that drive them a core part of his agenda, at the heart of our development, peace building and conflict prevention work. And give his effort the prominence it surely requires. Im calling on the secretarygeneral to make this the theme of next years General Assembly and use this to harness the efforts of governments, the private sector, and civil society, so we can truly strike the generational blow against this vile evil in our world. And as we do so, we must strike the balance between protecting our people and protecting their freedoms. We must always guard against those who would use the fight against terrorism as a cover for oppression and the violation of human rights. As we look at the situation in burma, i call on the burmese authorities to put an end to the violence, allow humanitarian access and fully implement the anon recommendations. We can strengthen their ability to deliver for the people we serve, protect the vulnerable and fight injustice. We can multiply the effect of our individual commitment through the convening power and spending power, through the economies of scale it can break , the standards of consent, the , the moreset leadership it can harness, and the legitimacy it can confer. Multilateralism can only reflect the shared values. The commitments they are prepared to make. It is strong nations the form strong institutions and which provide the basis of the International Partnerships and cooperation that brings stability to our world. So it falls to us all to decide whether we will honor the responsibilities that we have 21 another to one another. Ive talked about the role we have to one another. Ive talked about the role of the u. N. Critical responsibilities that the u. N. Cannot itself address alone. For it is inescapable that the terrorism conflict and instability that we see across the world is in many cases driven by the actions of states acting through proxies. So when country backed groups like hezbollah to increase instability and conflict across the middle east, support socalled separatists in ukraine to create instability on europes eastern borders or give tacit support to marginal groups who launch Cyber Attacks against our countries and institutions, they call into question the very rules and International System that protect us. That is why those globally, but also in our own continent of europe, the u. K. Will remain steadfast in our responsibly to ensure the security and stability of our friends and allies as we have done for generations. And just as it is the responsibility of nations not to seek to advance their interests through terrorist or proxy groups, so it is the responsibility of each of us to act together in the face of the most egregious violations of our common rules and standards. Clearly, responsibility for the chaos and tragedy we see in syria lies firmly at the door of assad. He and his backers have continually frustrated they efforts of the u. N. To act as a broker of peace through the geneva process. As responsible states, we must not abandon our support for the u. N. s attempt to secure peace in syria and we must continue to call on all those with influence on the regime to bring them to the table. But in recent weeks, the u. N. Has also confirmed what we all knew, namely that the Syrian Regime has used chemical weapons on its own people. In the face of that, we have a responsibility to stand up, to hold the Syrian Regime to account. This responsibility sits with us all. But a particular special responsibility lies on the shoulders of the permanent members of the Security Council. And as one of these five members, the United Kingdom takes our special responsibility seriously. Im proud that we have use the full weight of our diplomacy to ensure that we have not had to exercise our veto in a generation, seeking to fluster International Cooperation, and a not frustrate it. But have not done so. One country has used his veto as many times in the last five years. In so doing, they have prevented action against the despicable regime that has murdered its own people with chemical weapons. As a result in syria, the United Nations has been blocked. This has undermined the values that we hold dear and the international rulebased system that is the basis for security and prosperity around the world. Now we face an even more immediate global danger in the activities of kim jongun and his regime. Time after time, he has shown contempt for the International Community, contempt for his neighbors, and contempt for the institutions and rules that have preserved peace and security. On this challenge, the u. N. Has in recent weeks shown he can step up to the task. Last mondays resolution creating the biggest sanctions of the 20th century. 21st century. We have seen regional and global powers come together and come up putting aside limited selfinterest, to show leadership on behalf of the wider world. Despite these efforts, the dprk continues to define provoked the International Community and threaten its neighbors. Unless also could councilmembers all Security Council members continue to live up to the special responsibilities placed upon us, seeking to resolve this crisis, be prepared to take all necessary measures to tackle this threat, we will not be able to bring stability to the korean peninsula. As the world looks on, i am calling for further steps after nations with the special responsibility to Work Together and exert the pressure we know is necessary to force kim jongun to change his ways. Let us not fail this time. Let our message to north korea be clear. Our determination to uphold these rules is stronger by far than their determination to undermine them. Mr. President , throughout the history of this United Nations, countries have shown time and time again that, by being true to our values, rules, and standards, it is possible to come together and to deliver in ways that have the most extraordinary impact