All Kofi Annan Quotes
National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
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Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
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We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
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The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
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We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
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In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
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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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Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
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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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I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
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