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astrid-gil-botn
from Londinium (United Kingdom) on 2003-09-09 14:11 [#00856374]
Points: 1649 Status: Regular
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from a speech made in 1961 to the belgrade council by haile selassie :
U.N's Enemy - Our Enemy
In our appraisal of the United Nations, of its structure and the field of action proper and appropriate to it, we must recognize the historically demonstrated fact that a wilful and deliberate violation by any member state of its obligations under the United Nations Charter weakens the United Nation's prestige and threatens its destruction. Let us speak frankly; he who acts deliberately and with calculation to the injury of the United Nations, to weaken it or to endanger its existence as an effective and energetic international institution, is the enemy of all of us. He robs the world of the last, best hope for peace, robs the small nations of that bulwark which the United Nations provides against oppression and he deprives them of the forum where their voice may be raised against injustice and oppression. It is, perhaps, no accident that the United Nations headquarters resembles a structre of glass. It is a fragile, not an indestructible, institution.
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MistahKurtz
from Paris (France) on 2003-09-09 14:28 [#00856412]
Points: 327 Status: Lurker
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Words of my king. Thank you for posting his wisdom, it is most appreciated. Jah in the highest bring you happiness and prosperity.
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