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One of the greatest challenges of democracies today is the question of financing campaigns. It's a tremendous challenge. Obviously I think the solution is to have the governments pay for all the campaigns and not to have any private contributions.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
Ensuring a better future for all South Africans will require increased access to higher education, a stronger and fairer labour market, deeper participation in regional markets, and a regulatory framework that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to thrive.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
Coal is the most carbon-intensive fuel available for electricity generation. The most urgent threat to climate policy is the scale of new investments in unabated coal-fired electricity generation still being planned.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
Some challenges remain, but the bottom line is that low-carbon options can and should play a much greater role in energy supply.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
We need to achieve zero emissions from fossil fuel sources by the second half of the century. That doesn't mean by 2050 exactly, but it means by that time we need to be pretty much on the way to achieving it.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
Israel should share its great wealth with its neighbors, like the Palestinians, in areas like governance and investment as well as the building of institutions.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
Israel has been doing very well, but there are challenges the country faces, like poverty and social integration of the Orthodox, Arab, Beduin, and Ethiopian population, which will be essential for sustaining strong growth over time.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
It will be crucial the E.U. and the U.K. maintain the closest economic relationship possible.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
We need better measures of people's expectations and levels of satisfaction, of how they spend their time, of their relations with other people... We need to focus on stocks as much as on flows, and we need to broaden the range of assets that we consider important to sustain our well-being.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
The idea that if governments open up and become more democratic they will fall is a false dilemma.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
More dangerous than voting for change... is that people no longer vote because they have lost trust not only in governments but in democracy.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
Why did we lose Brexit? Why, because 60 per cent of youth didn't believe they needed to go and vote.
Quote by -Jose Angel Gurria
The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
While many parts of the United Nations have been involved in the peace-building process, the system has lacked a dedicated entity to oversee the process, ensure its coherence or sustain it through the long haul.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
The only way to escape from the present downward spiral lies through ending the violence and resuming negotiations aimed at comprehensive peaceful settlement based on relevant United Nations resolutions,
Quote by -Kofi Annan
made it quite clear that the United Nations cannot condone the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
Let me be absolutely clear: the United Nations does not want to take over, police or otherwise control the Internet,
Quote by -Kofi Annan
Simply put, what the United Nations wants is what the U.S. also wants: a reformed United Nations that is effective, efficient, leaner and relevant to the tasks that member states want to set for us, ... The world has changed and we have to change, we have to adapt and I have given my commitment to the president that I will pursue reforms.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
I wish to stress that the United Nations is eager to be at your side in the efforts to resolve the problems of your country and the region on the basis of universal principles of peace, justice and human rights,
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I would expect the summit to come up with a program of action not just for the United Nations but also for the members states,
Quote by -Kofi Annan
When I think of the delicate balance of tremendous promise and urgent peril in today's world, I think particularly of the nations of Latin America, ... Because yours is a region that truly hangs in that delicate balance. It is in many ways a microcosm of the world in which we live, and it is therefore a place in which all that the United Nations stands for is put to test.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
We must resolve, even more firmly, to build nations within which people of different communities can coexist, and enjoy equal rights,
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Under the circumstances, it is difficult to envisage the United Nations operating with a large number of international staff inside Iraq in the near future unless there is an unexpected and significant improvement in the overall security situation,
Quote by -Kofi Annan
Two years ago, I declared that in my view no reform of the United Nations would be complete without reform of the Security Council. That is still my belief,
Quote by -Kofi Annan
We agreed that in this interdependent world we need the United Nations more than ever.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
We need to decide our priorities. And we must adapt our United Nations so that in the future, those priorities are reflected in clear and prompt decisions leading to real change in people's lives. That my friend is what the people expect of us -- let us not disappoint them.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
Few United Nations officials have demonstrated the calm, grace and professionalism that you have in the face of virtually unprecedented pressure and attention over the past several months.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
What is needed today is nothing less than a new consensus between alliances that are frayed, between wealthy nations and poor. The essence of that consensus is simple: We all share responsibility for each other's security.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations
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The United Nations needs U.S. leadership, but the U.S. also needs the United Nations, ... We look forward to working with you and the administration in ensuring that the U.S. is ... back in the fold with the question of arrears, behind us as we move ahead in strengthening and reshaping this organization.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
Notwithstanding the embargo, Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size of its gross domestic product per capita, ... As the human development index of the United Nations makes clear year after year, Cuba should be the envy of many other nations ostensibly far richer.
Quote by -Kofi Annan
As we move forward into the future, the role of the United Nations in legitimizing a military presence on the ground, and giving it a mandate, and allowing it to operate, becomes absolutely essential,
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It seems at times like a nightmare from which we are still hoping to awake, except that for millions of people in 12 affected countries, spanning two continents, and for tens of thousands of visitors from nations around the world, this nightmare is devastatingly real,
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exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building. We all need to understand that the United Nations is not a separate or alien entity, seeking to impose its agenda on others. The United Nations is us; it is you and me.
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I hope you will give your full backing to all points of the strategy I have outlined. Let us ensure the United Nations play its role in this fight to the full,
Quote by -Kofi Annan
I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy and any assistance that the United Nations can give, ... We will be happy to work with other parts of the international community to support the efforts of President Bush and his administration, the American Red Cross, and other U.S. relief organizations who have been our partners in the past.
Quote by -Kofi Annan