Sean Patrick Maloney: “I am really here to join two previous speakers, the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) and the gentlewoman from…”

“I am really here to join two previous speakers, the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson-Lee) and the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee), who were with me today at the United Nations Security Council in New York where the United Nation's Security Council for the first time in history voted for a united effort and attack on the AIDS crisis in the world and saw it as a security problem, not just a health challenge before us. It recognized a that HIV/AIDS is more than a health problem but actually a global crisis. It set a very important target to work towards the reduction of AIDS by 25 percent by the year 2010 in the age group of 15 to 24. It was a very significant and ground-breaking action, but it is by no means an end. It is a beginning of many more steps that we have to take. Earlier in January, I was there when Vice President Gore announced his support for this effort, and I applaud the leadership, not only of the Vice President, but of Ambassador Holbrooke who have worked with the Security Council to bring it to the vote today on this important resolution.”