Kofi Annan Quotes About United Nations

Quotes about: United Nations

• The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation is the family. It is only by protecting families, from famine as well as from fragmentation, that they can prosper and contribute to the family of nations that is the United Nations.

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  Family, Equality, Justice

• In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

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  Believe, Race, Profound

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

• More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

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  Destiny, Together, Faces

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Oct 24, 2016

• The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

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  Family, Future, Goal

• The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

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  Principles, World, Membership

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

• The United Nations has long recognised that the imagination, ideals and energies of young men and women are vital for the continuing development of the societies in which they live. And since its inception in 1948, AIESEC has contributed to this development by serving as an agent of positive change trough education and cultural exchange.

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  Men, Imagination, Long

• If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

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  Reflection, World, Should

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come.

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  Lying, Fate, Ideas

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

• From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

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  Keys, Priorities, Vision

  Nobel lecture, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2001.

• His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.

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  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  "Joseph Ratzinger Becomes Pope Benedict XVI". www.cnn.com. April 19, 2005.

• The [UN Security Council] P5 ought to be dissuaded from using their veto power, which can paralyze the United Nations. The country blocking action ought to have to explain its decision and propose an alternative solution. It has been suggested that a veto only becomes effective if the vetoing state has the support of two or three other permanent members.

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  Country, Block, Two

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

• It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

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  Government, People, Goal

• I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job.

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  Trust, Country, Jobs

• If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

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  People, Doe, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.

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  Believe, Independent, Acceptance

• A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.

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  Rights, United Nations, Humans

  United Nations. Secretary-General, Kofi Atta Annan, United Nations. Dept. of Public Information (1999). “The question of intervention: statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

• The United Nations is proud to have the Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign as a partner.

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  Campaigns, Proud, Partners

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