首先，维持联合国自成立以来几十年一直领导的多边体系，这个体系提供了一种集体办法，是处理诸多危机和在各个领域达成国际协定和公约的关键，从而加强了联合国赖以成立的三大支柱：国际和平与安全、发展和人权。
First, maintaining the multilateral system, which the United Nations has led since its inception over the past decades, has provided a collective approach, which has been key to dealing with more than a few crises and reaching international agreements and conventions in various areas — thereby reinforcing the three integral pillars upon which the United Nations was established: international peace and security, development and human rights.