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H.E. John W. Ashe, President of the 68th Session of the General Assembly I would like to congratulate you and your friendly country, Antigua and Barbuda, on your election as President of the General Assembly at its current session, and to wish you success in conducting our work for the enhancement of the important and neutral role of the President of the General Assembly undertaken by your predecessor, who avoided engaging the Presidency of the General Assembly in political agendas. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Last year, when I addressed this august Assembly, our world was facing many events that ravaged it and its nations. We were all hope that the scene will change for the better this year, but unfortunately, the situation remains the same, and in some parts of the world the situation became even worse. Many countries are still facing political, economic and financial crises that exceed their ability to confront them alone. While the peoples of the world are looking forward to see effective international efforts exerted to overcome those crises, we witness today indications of exacerbating and increasing problems, since hegemony and domination on the capabilities of peoples have escalated in a way that contradicts blatantly the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the norms of International Law. Instead of settling regional and international conflicts by peaceful means, some known countries continued pursuing aggressive policies against certain nations. Political hypocrisy increased to intervene in the domestic affairs of states under the pretext of Humanitarian Intervention or the Responsibility to Protect; and when those aggressive policies did not prove beneficial for some countries, like my Own country, Syria, these well-known states revealed their true face, and threatened with blatant military aggression outside the mandate Security Council, and certainly away from any international consensus. This comes as those same countries imposed immoral, illegal and unilateral coercive measures. This is in addition to suspicious policies that aim at spreading sedition an