let me start by adding my thanks to susana malcorra for coming here today. i've known susana for nearly a decade. and i remember the first time we met being impressed by your frankness, honesty continued dedication in what is easily the most complex job in the international system. our thanks to you for the service you do for the u.n. and for us. i'm not going to try to get you into trouble by pushing you to answer tom's question per se. but i do want you to talk a little bit more about the dynamics in the security council. over the last 20 years we've seen enormous evolution of the u.n. and you've been sitting at the helm of large parts of it. but unity of the security council was the central condition for that. and you talked yourself about how important that is. and now you have a situation where the security council's absolutely deadlocked on some key files like syria and ukraine. and yet amply cooperating on others. and i just wonder if you can describe what it is like to work with the council in that slightly odd circumstance? >> well, you get me in tro

let me start by adding my thanks to susana malcorra for coming here today. i've known susana for nearly a decade. and i remember the first time we met being impressed by your frankness, honesty and continued in what is easily the most complex job in the international system. our thanks to you for the service you do for the u.n. and for us. i'm not going to try to get you into trouble by pushing you to answer tom's question per se. but i do want you to talk a little bit more about the dynamics in the security council. over the last 20 years we've seen enormous evolution of the u.n. and you've been sitting at the helm of large parts of it. but unity of the security council was the central condition for that. and you talked yourself about how important that is. and now you have a situation where the security council's absolutely deadlocked on some key files like syria and ukraine. and yet amply cooperating on others. and i just wonder if you can describe what it is like to work with the council in that slightly odd circumstance? >> well you get me in trouble wi

i will start by adding my thanks to susana malcorra are coming here today. i've known suzanna nearly a decade in from the first time we met your honesty and dedication has continued unabated and what is easily the most complex job in the international system. our thanks to you. i'm not going to get you into trouble by pushing you to answer questions -- tough questions per se. over the last 20 years has seen enormous evolution of the u.n. and we been setting up a large part of it here detractors also thought this was a knife of a situation where it's absolutely deadlocked on ukraine. and yet cooperaticooperati ng on others. i wonder if you could describe what like to work with the council on circumstances. >> you'll get me in trouble. you know it is really very interesting what you said because as much as there is almost an impossible situation and one discussion that morning you get stuck in the afternoon to discuss something different and there is unity and how it can go forward. so how we can get the security council to have a common view on the issues is

susana. ms. malcorra: thank you. on the report on global governance i know a bit. i'm not really yet fully privy to what is coming out. so i will navigate from the basic i know. forgive me if i'm not totally exposed to it. i think that notion of having a five-year perspective toward what is needed to change is a very interesting notion. one with problems, you know, coming from the private sector i always thought that the private sector was very short-term oriented, didn't have enough of a strategic horizon. i have learned now that there is much bigger strategic horizon in the private sector than the one we have. again, going fire after fire and being pulled and pushed by the reality of today and reacting to the reality of today. so being able to have an agenda that is developed over a period of time and has the common understanding by member states to me is fundamental. that means that member states need to trust that that agenda is in the interest of everybody and work towards that agenda. reform is often seen with a suspicious mind within the united nations. ther