When our leaders held their historic Millennium Summit a few months ago, they gave us the unequivocal mandate to pursue democracy and the rule of law as one of the important goals of the United Nations.
几个月前，我们各国的领导人在举行历史性的千年首脑会议时，为我们规定了追求民主和法治的明确任务，把它作为联合国的重要目标之一。