More - Jan Eliasson Quotes

This draft resolution represents a unique opportunity for a fresh start for human rights.

Jan Eliasson

 Human Rights

We will not achieve our collective goals for development, peace and security and human rights if we do not take concrete action to enhance women's participation in decision-making in governments, parliaments, international organizations, academic life and the private sector.

Jan Eliasson

 Goals

This water I can drink right now is a luxury for 1.2 billion people in the world. Three-hundred million people south of Sahara don't have this,

Jan Eliasson

 Luxury

The best birthday gift to our Organization is for all of us, the members of the global community, to translate our leaders' commitments at the 2005 World Summit into concrete action to the benefit of the peoples of the world,

Jan Eliasson

 Action

While no member state has got everything it argued for, the text before you is balanced, strong and workable. I also hope that, after reviewing the text as a whole and after assessing the larger issues at stake, you will be ready to move to a decision on this draft resolution as soon as possible, preferably before the end of next week.

Jan Eliasson

 

it is crucial that Palestinians and Israelis cooperate to the fullest extent possible.

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I so much enjoyed doing the think-tank circuit once or twice a week. . . . I like the element of communicating and thinking aloud with like-minded and less-like-minded individuals,

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We have problems ahead of us. I will not hide the fact that the management issues are very difficult and we face a polarization of the membership.

Jan Eliasson

 Management

Who is right? The answer, I believe, is up to us, ... The document should, as one speaker put it, be a beachhead of common ground from which we launch ourselves forward with urgency and common purpose.

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The latest I hear is that the Thai authorities think it is a matter of mistaken identity.

Jan Eliasson

 Identity