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The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
U.S. national security interests are best served when the United Nations effectively fulfills this core purpose.
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
The United Nations Award for India's efforts in the field of environment conservation has made every Indian proud.
John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.
The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.
It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.
Particularly here in the United States there is a lack of comprehension about anything to do with the United Nations.
I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
At the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
There is firm support in the Swedish society for the United Nations and, of course, for the Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.
We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.
Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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?
I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
Again and again, there is no respect for the United Nations Charter that makes it illegal under international law to seek regime change.
I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.
My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
It is our hope that Palestine will soon be welcomed to the community of nations with full - in my opinion - full membership in the United Nations.
We are now changing the culture at the United Nations. And with that, we're changing the culture in the world in the discussions that we're having.
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.
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.
The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.
One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget.
As United Nations patron of the wilderness, one of my roles is to report back from the Earth's remaining wildernesses and to act as a voice for the wild.
United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.
We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.
In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.