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Today, freedom was once again under attack. For his country, World War II was synonymous with the Holocaust, during which one third of the Jewish people were murdered. “We know the evil that man is capable of and we know that some things are worth fighting for,” said Israel’s representative. It was the duty of all to revere and preserve the gains won in that war, because too much was paid for them, and too much was at stake for succeeding generations.

The representative of the Russian Federation, on whose initiative the Assembly met today, said that the long struggle of the Soviet people against Nazism had made a decisive contribution towards the common victory of the “anti-Hitlerite” countries of the Second World War. Over the last seven decades, the war had not only shaped the Organization’s mission, but its lessons continued to guide its work around the world. As envisaged in the United Nations Charter, it was founded to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. To that end, he said, the Organization was established to ensure unity and harmony among nations.

Having survived the catastrophe of the Second World War, humankind sought to embrace new means to prevent the recurrence of such tragic events. “We must never forget the international community’s responsibility to stand up to tyrants, despots and all those that attempt to suppress the enduring nature of the human spirit,” said Sam Kutesa (Uganda), Assembly President. The lessons of World War II - on whose ashes the United Nations was founded - must continue to guide the Organization’s work, even as it adapted to meet the evolving challenges of the modern world, delegates commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the end of the war told the General Assembly today. Several Speakers Call for Security Council Reform to Address Present Challenges