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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
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“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
“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 -- 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. "
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Ban Ki-moon |
One 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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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.
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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."
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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
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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
Gilley |
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