Kofi Annan
Posted on 10/03/2002 6:08:35 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Kofi Annan
2 October 2002-Urging efforts to make worldwide integration an inclusive force, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for a "globalization of community."
Addressing the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Mr. Annan stressed the need "to create a wider, more expansive definition of our duties to our fellow men and women." He pointed out that this is an imperative, not a luxury, as today's world "demands that we tear down the walls in our own minds as well - those separating us from them, rich from poor, white from black, Christian from Muslim from Jew - so that we are able to recognize the untold ways in which we can all benefit from cooperation and solidarity across lines of nationality, race or economic development."
The Secretary-General called on those present to "rethink what belonging means, and what community means, in order to be able to embrace the fate of distant peoples, and realize that globalization's glass house must be open to all if it is to remain secure."
To achieve this, leaders must make the case for helping the poor and disenfranchised. "Either we help the outsiders in a globalized world out of a sense of moral obligation and enlightened self-interest, or we will find ourselves compelled to do so tomorrow, when their problems become our problems, in a world without walls," he warned.
Drawing lessons from last year's 11 September terrorist attacks against the United States, Mr. Annan said the global reaction offered hope. "The sight of people gathering in cities in every part of the world from every religion to mourn - and to express solidarity with the people of the United States - proved more eloquently than any words that terrorism is not an issue that divides humanity, but one that unites it."
While acknowledging that the past year had seen a dramatic rise of intolerance, he said acts of bigotry and ignorance represented the "ugly faces" of an exclusive globalization. "An inclusive globalization must address these ills," he said.
While the primary victims of the 11 September attacks were the innocent civilians who lost their lives, and the families who now grieve for them, the Secretary-General pointed out that peace, tolerance, mutual respect, human rights, the rule of law and the global economy were all among the casualties of the terrorists' acts.
"Just as a concerted international response can make the work of terrorists much harder to accomplish, so should the unity born of this tragedy bring all nations together in defence of the most basic right - the right of all peoples to live in peace and security," he said. "An inclusive globalization will be central to achieving this fundamental goal."
Fine by me, too!
Can you please explain in 100 words or less how this means that "the United Nations has control of our educational system"? Thank you.
Immediately following the announcement, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura "warmly welcomed" the news and pledged his "full commitment" to reintegrating the United States into the agency's work
We are rejoined to UNESCO
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President Ronald Reagan realized the dangers of UNESCO=(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and got us out. We are now back in this organization, therefore controlled by this organizations ideals and policies.
Washington to Rejoin UNESCO After Nearly 18 Years
The N.E.A. has been carrying on UNESCO's ideals,politics and policies, all along. So logically, we have always been controlled by the U.N.'s educational ideals. The U.S. Rejoining UNESCO; along with the NEA hold on our education system, has the United Nations front and center in the control driver seat.
President Bush ) said on Thursday the United States would rejoin the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural arm nearly 18 years after pulling out.
The United States pulled out of UNESCO in December 1984, complaining of wasteful bureaucracy and a Third World bias.
Bottom line we were sold out.We compromised as a country, to brown nose Kofi Annan to LET US DEFEND ourselves in Iraq.This broke the fine line of politics and selling this nation out.
We should have never, ever, been put in the position to begin with to have to beg anyone.. NATO,the U.N., on our foreign policy and military offense or defense.
I say have some fun and triangulate. (It'll highlight their corruption!)
If Kofi and Clinton want a world government, then agree but insist on standards for membership. (Otherwise, it's regressive.)
- A bill of rights modeled after our own (including gun ownership)
- Explicit limits on government (better than our own)
- Representative democracy
- UN representation according to GDP
- Divided government
- Equality under the law
RE: post 80,I stated...
"Your ideals are torn apart... as the International Criminal Court is up and running. You can't give the powers that be ideals...LOL how dare you!"
You replied...
If you assemble dis sentences your, do you think that people presume intelligence will?
What I meant was that even in parody/joke of 'your ideals' they are torn apart and won't work as the International Criminal Court is up and running...so 'how dare you; :-) usurp their rules and laws without being thrown in jail.
I am so sorry I had to break-down to explain, it is no longer funny when you have to explain.
Sorry, there are a few lunatics on this forum, and it's a challenge to separate vague shorthand comedy from psychosis. I'll remember your style next time.
Ideas don't control people. The NEA may control education and be led by UNESCO, but the case isn't made that it's controlled. Bush's vague announcement that we're returning to UNESCO may make us more vulnerable to some kind of real control, or it may not. From what you've told me, there's no abdication of control.
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