Political Quotes

“last year, during the ceremony for United Nations Day on October 24, 1994, United Secretary-General Joseph Verner Reed delivered a message at U.N. headquarters on behalf of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali. That occasion launched the Golden Anniversary celebration of the United Nations and was the first in a series of planned events that will continue well into this year. As Ambassador Reed--whom, by the way, many of my colleagues will recall from his distinguished service in the U.S. Government--noted in his introductory remarks to the Secretary General's message. Forty-nine years ago in San Francisco, the United Nations was launched as our world organization and began its long journey for a better world. The signators of the charter were fifty-one sovereign states, and today the United Nations comprises 184 member-states; the organization represents the world with all its problems and all its aspirations. I had the honor of serving on the International Secretariat of the San Francisco Conference which drew up the U.N. Charter. I have since then held the hope that the United Nations would fulfill the noble thoughts expressed in the charter and have tried to promote ways to make the United Nations become a functional and effective alternative to international conflict and discord.”