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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday for the first time in over five . She also visited Ground Zero, the site of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, to lay a wreath. The Queen commented on how the world had changed since she last spoke at the UN fifty years ago. She said she has “ great change, much of it for the better" since her first speech as a young queen in 1957. A British , Sir Brian Urqhart, told he thought the Queen’s role had become less important in the between her two speeches. He told reporters how he met the Queen when she first addressed the UN, saying: "I the British monarchy was a bigger in 1957 than now."

The UN General-Secretary the Queen by calling her "an for our age". He noted her reign spanned "from the Cold War to global warming," from "the Beatles to Beckham," and from "the television to Twitter." The Queen gave a seven-minute to the U.N. She spoke about how the organization had changed: "When I was first here, there were just three U.N. operations . Now over 120,000 men and women are in 26 missions across the world," she said. She the UN for its efforts to help millions around the world, saying: "You have helped to reduce , you have offered humanitarian to millions of people." She added that the United Nations has been "deeply committed to the effects of poverty in many parts of the world”.