In a message addressed to the supporters of the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly in May 2007, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former United Nations Secretary-General, said: "If the process of democratization does not move forward at the international level, democracy at the level of the nation-state will also diminish. In the process of globalization, problems which can only be solved effectively at the global level, are multiplying and requirements of political governance are extending beyond state borders accordingly. Increased decision-making at the global level therefore is inevitable. We need to promote the democratization of globalization, before globalization destroys the foundations of national and international democracy."
According to Boutros-Ghali, "the establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations has become an indispensable step to achieve democratic control of globalization."