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UN can play key role in quest for world free from threat of weapons - Fréchette

UN can play key role in quest for world free from threat of weapons - Fréchette

Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette today told a model United Nations conference that the current situation in Iraq shows what a central role the UN can - and must - play in the quest for a world free from the threat of weapons of mass destruction.

"This is a time of trial - for Iraq, for the United Nations and for the world," the Deputy Secretary-General said in her opening remarks this evening to the Harvard Model United Nations Conference in Boston.

"The goal is to ensure the effective and peaceful disarmament of Iraq in compliance with Security Council resolutions and a better, more secure future for its people," she said. "How this crisis is resolved will affect greatly the course of peace and security in the coming years in the region, and the world."

The Harvard Model United Nations attracts more than 2,000 students and faculty from around the world, who gather to represent countries in a simulation of the world body.