The United Nations should select more women to serve as mediators in conflicts and during political transitions, Liechtenstein told the General Assembly today, calling on the entire international community to do more to promote the participation of women in conflict prevention and resolution.

Nationalist or populist policies are not the answer to the debt crisis engulfing many European countries, Slovakia’s Prime Minister told the United Nations today, urging governments on the continent to ensure their actions do not jeopardize the cause of greater European integration.

Describing his country’s ongoing name dispute with neighbouring Greece as “utterly incomprehensible,” the President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia told the United Nations today that a solution must be found that recognizes “our commitment, desire and determination for coexistence, community, individuality and identity.”

International efforts, albeit halting, to punish perpetrators of crimes against humanity validate the very essence of the United Nations, Georgia has told the General Assembly, citing progress made since the end of the Cold War 20 years ago.