Statesman

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.

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?

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

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.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate.

Pekerjaan global Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa bukan tanpa alasan dibandingkan dengan pekerjaan keluarga - berjuang untuk tujuan bersama bersama dengan semua anggota untuk masa depan yang lebih baik.

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

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.

I think it is not just the U.N. speaking, but the concept of a third party, a third party to a conflict speaking out. You know, sometimes saying, 'Stop, this is enough. This cannot be allowed to happen,' gives the victims and the people who are caught in that situation courage, encouragement, support.

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.

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.

Kesetaraan gender lebih dari sekadar tujuan. Ini adalah prasyarat untuk memenuhi tantangan pengurangan kemiskinan, mempromosikan pembangunan berkelanjutan dan membangun tata pemerintahan yang baik.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

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.

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.