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Need Quotes by Kofi Annan
- Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
- 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…
- 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…
- If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more…
- The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for…
- To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how…
- We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace…
- 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…
- Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to equip people with…
- We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
- In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
- We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
- Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face…
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