Days from now, the human family will welcome its seven billionth member.

Some say our planet is too crowded. I say we are seven billion strong.

The world has made remarkable progress since the United Nations was born 66 years ago today.

We are living longer. More of our children survive. More and more of us live at peace, under democratic rule of law.

As we have seen in this dramatic year, people everywhere are standing up for their rights and human freedoms.

And yet ... all this progress is under threat. From economic crisis. Rising joblessness and inequality. Climate change.

Around the world, too many people live in fear. Too many people believe their governments and the global economy can no longer deliver for them.

In these turbulent times, there is only one answer: unity of purpose.

Global problems demand global solutions.

They compel all nations to unite in action on an agenda for the world's people.

That is the very mission of the United Nations:

To build a better world.

To leave no one behind.

To stand for the poorest and most vulnerable in the name of global peace and social justice.

On this special day, let us recognize:

Never has the United Nations been so needed.

In our increasingly interconnected world, we all have something to give and something to gain by working together.

Let us unite, seven billion strong, in the name of the global common good.

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Loron balu tan, família umana sei simu ninia membru biliaun da-hitu.

Ema balu dehan ita-nia planeta ne'e ema barak demais ona. Ha'u dehan ita-nia forsa ema na'in biliaun hitu.

Mundu ne'e halo ona progresu estraordináriu dezde ké Nasoins Unidas moris tinan 66 liubá.

Agora ita-nia esperansa moris naruk liu. Ita-nia oan sira barak liu mak sobrevive. Ema barak liu moris ho trankuilidade, iha estadu-direitu demokrátiku nia okos.

Hanesan ita haree ona iha tinan dramátiku ida-ne'e, povu iha fatin hotu-hotu hamriik daudaun hodi defende sira-nia direitu no liberdade umana.

No maski nune'e ... progresu ne'e hotu hetan ameasa. Husi krize ekonómika. Nivel dezempregu no dezigualdade ne'ebé aumenta. Mudansa klimátika.

Iha mundu tomak, ema barak tebes mak moris iha ta'uk nia laran. Ema barak tebes fiar katak sira-nia governu no ekonomia globál la bele tan sustenta sira-nia nesesidade.

Iha tempu runguranga, só iha de'it resposta ida: ita hotu tenke iha objetivu ida de'it.

Problema globál presiza solusaun globál.

Problema sira-ne'e haka'as nasaun hotu-hotu atu hamutuk iha asaun kona-ba ajenda ida ba mundu nia povu.

Ne'e mak Nasoins Unidas nia misaun tebes duni:

Atu harii mundu ida-ne'ebé di'ak liu.

Labele husik nein ema ida iha kotuk.

Hamriik iha ema sira kiak liu hotu no vulneravel liu hotu nia sorin hodi pás globál no justisa sosiál nia naran.

Iha loron espesiál ida-ne'e, mai ita rekoñese:

Agora daudaun ema presiza duni Nasoins Unidas.

Iha ita-nia mundu ne'ebé interligadu badadaun, ita hotu iha buat balu atu fó no buat balu atu manan husi ita-nia serbisu hamutuk.

Mai ita hamutuk, forsa biliaun hitu, hodi tane interese komún globál.