The Minister of Foreign Affairs explained that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attaches utmost importance to the development issues and supports its efforts in developing countries, pointing out that the success of the development process depends on the respect of the international community of the historical specificity, and the religious and cultural heritage prevailing in different countries, and this means that the achievement of sustainable development must be linked to each state's own goals and its level of development and current renaissance, and this reflected the Kingdom's keenness to have an active and direct contribution to the development of the Millennium Development Goals. Al-Jubeir concluded the Kingdom's speech, saying "The variables in our contemporary world, and the challenges we face (at military, economic, intellectual, environmental and healthy levels and others require strengthening the role of the United Nations and the activation of its agencies in addition to exerting more efforts to reform our international organization, to keep abreast of the developments on the international arena." --SPA 14:56 LOCAL TIME 11:56 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w