Summary
Excerpts from Kofi Annan's Sorensen Distinguished Lecture
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan discussed the role of the organization in maintaining international cooperation and peace. He also stressed the need for a social agenda as the solution to the dangers of global exclusion and intolerance.See the full content of this document
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From the Secretary-General.
"Reliable markets and real prosperity must depend upon the long-term viability of democratic institutions and the rule of law in all developing countries", says Mr. Kofi Annan in these excerpts from the Sorensen Distinguished Lecture on the United Nations, in New York on 22 April.
The end of the cold war signalled, in many ways, the end of the political universe in which the United Nations had emerged and developed. We had to adapt to this new world with no other maps than those we ...See the full content of this document
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