Kofi Annan Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its members, and especially the Permanent 5 (P5), have a special responsibility for international peace and security.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Responsibility, Security Systems

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

• No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Achieve, Share

  Kofi Annan's speech - Americas - International Herald Tribune, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2006.

• Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

  Kofi Annan

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Ecosystems

• In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to a sustainable system is running out. We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too slowly. We are failing in our responsibility to future generations and even the present one.

  Kofi Annan

  Running, Moving, Responsibility

  "Annan pleads with west as environment is pushed up UN agenda" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2001.

• In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Technology, Government

• Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.

  Kofi Annan

  Military, Fall, Responsibility

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