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have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective
instrument of international cooperation”
-- Dean Acheson
“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.”
-- Kofi
Annan *
“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.”
-- Kofi
Annan 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.
-– Kofi Annan
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“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.”
-- Kofi
Annan “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."
-- Kofi
Annan
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“There are millions
of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations
for protection and redress against the violation of their rights and deprivation
of their freedoms.”
-– Louise
Arbour | 
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"Today, we have more
than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come
from nearly 120 countries ... Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian
assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin. "
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Ban Ki-moon |
"Today, we have
more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They
come from nearly 120 countries -- an all-time high, reflecting confidence in United
Nations peacekeeping. They come from nations large and small, rich and poor --
some of them countries recently afflicted by war themselves. They bring different
cultures and experiences to the job, but they are united in their determination
to foster peace. Some are in uniform, but many are civilians and their activities
go far beyond monitoring. They train police, disarm ex-combatants, support elections
and help build State institutions. They build bridges, repair schools, assist
flood victims and protect women from sexual violence. They uphold human rights
and promote gender equality. Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian
assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin. "
--
Ban Ki-moon
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The UN is committed
to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific
progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural
disasters.
-– Bill
Bradley | 
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means of paying attention to smaller countries that have sometimes been overlooked
is by revitalizing US leadership in the United Nations. The UN is committed to
the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific
progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural
disasters. It provides a mechanism through which the US can help in dozens of
conflicts around the world in which our vital interests aren’t directly involved
but where we feel a more imperative to respond. Working with the UN’s diplomacy
and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars.
When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and
settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better
training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping
forces.
-– Bill Bradley
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
-- Lakhdar
Brahimi *
There is a story which
is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the
country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery
and nobody talks of them.
-- Lakhdar
Brahimi |
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“The United Nations
is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world”
-- Ralph
J. Bunche The
United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective
of race, religion, or ideology. --
Ralph J. Bunche
The United
Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even
radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no
vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world,
a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the
objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.
-- Ralph
J. Bunche |  |
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What matters is the
people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and
that it reflects the will of the people.
-- Anwarul
Chowdhury |
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"At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary
people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me
their passion, their dedication and their commitment to this organisation and
refugees. They told me about the daily difficulties they have to face and also
the joy they felt when they managed to save a person whose life was threatened."
- Julien
Clerc |  |
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"Peace is not just
a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation
or a 5 K race. It's not just a folk song, or a white dove. And peace is certainly
more than a celebrity endorsement. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians,
overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. The UN has over 100,000 Peacekeepers
on the ground, in places others can't or won't go, doing things others can't or
won't do. Peace, like war, must be waged."
-- George
Clooney |
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“If the United Nations
is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must
submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.”
-- Norman
Cousins |
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In a nutshell, this
United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of
starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them
to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more
but I was so struck by this story.
--
Sheryl Crow |
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“If the United Nations
once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we
will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing
a world order.”
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower | 
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"For
all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been
those who were lost – the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives
for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted
by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the
collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world
free from the scourge of war."
-- Jan Eliasson (Former
President of the UN General Assembly) |
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"The UN Declaration
of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are
remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists
and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes
on in this world and hopefully want to change it." -- Peter
Gabriel | |
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We
need to support the governments of the world to create the world we want and I
also think we need to empower the UN so that the secretariat, the people who work
day in and day out, know that the people are behind them.
-- Jeremy
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