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UNITED NATIONS DAY, REAFFIRM GLOBAL MISSION:

The United Nations Day, I express my deep gratitude to the millions of people around the world who believe deeply in our work for peace, development and human rights ... and defend our ideals and help us achieve our goals. To all of you ... friends and fellow citizens of the world ... I say thanks.

Sixty-five years on this date, founding Charter of the United Nations took effect. Each year the United Nations Day, we reaffirm our global mission. reaffirm the universal values tolerance, mutual respect and human dignity. And we recognize the progress we have made together: increasing literacy and life expectancy ... knowledge dissemination and technology ... advances in democracy and the rule of law.

But above all, at the United Nations is a day we decided to do something else. more to protect people caught in armed conflict, to combat climate change and avert a nuclear catastrophe, more for expand opportunities for women and girls, and fight against injustice and impunity, more to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

In last month's summit of the MDGs at the United Nations to generate political momentum ... and financial commitments are especially important in these difficult economic times. I decided to go ahead in 2015 about the deadline.

Despite our problems, despite the polarization and distrust, our interconnected world has opened new possibilities for the great common progress. Let us commit to do more to realize the grand vision contained in the Charter United Nations.

The 2009 estimates Agriculture and Food (FAO) indicate that, due in part to increased food prices and global financial crisis, the number of undernourished exceeded thousand million for the first time. Despite an expected decline - the first in 15 years - from 2010 the estimates are still unacceptably high in a total of 925 million, or 1 in 7 people suffering chronic hunger. chronic hunger or malnutrition, is defined by FAO as "the situation of people whose food intake regularly provides less than their minimum energy requirements." This is not due to lack of food. The world produces enough food to feed everyone. Many people suffer from chronic hunger due to poor harvests, but by food insecurity, ie can not afford to buy food that is available or physical or social access to food. food security as defined by FAO , exists when all people at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active life and healthy.

The FAO leads international efforts to eradicate hunger. In his view, the vision of a world without hunger is the first step in fighting world hunger. With this in mind, FAO launched the "1billionhungry" project in May 2010 to "blow the whistle" on hunger. The results of this petition will be presented to world leaders during the celebration of World Food October 16 Headquarters United Nations. The theme this year is "Unite Against Hunger." FAO hope is that if the public and private sectors work together to alleviate poverty, end the gender imbalance and improve access to healthy food for all citizens, we can manage and improve food security. On the occasion of World Food , let us unite to solve the critical problem of food insecurity and hunger in the world.