Verbatim

27 September 2004

"The Commonwealth represents the interests of one-third of the world's population and more than one-quarter of the United Nations' membership, and is present in every region of the globe. When Commonwealth Foreign Ministers meet, they can generate political will and accelerate international agreement on some of today's major global challenges. That is how the Commonwealth makes a real difference." 

Commonwealth Secretary-General Don Mckinnon
Foreign ministers from the Commonwealth meeting at the United Nations in New York on 23 September 2004

 Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon