First, we are all responsible for each other's security. Second, we can and must give everyone the chance to benefit from global prosperity.
Third, both security and prosperity depend on human rights and the rule of law.
Fourth, states must be accountable to each other, and to a broad range of non-state actors, in their international conduct.
My fifth and final lesson derives inescapably from those other four. We can only do all these things by working together through a multilateral system, and by making the best possible use of the unique instrument bequeathed to us by Harry Truman and his contemporaries, namely the United Nations.
Full Text:
Independence, Missouri, 11 December 2006 - Secretary-General's address at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library
http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=2357
Please also see:
Annan chides US in final speech
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6169669.stm
UN remains best device for achieving key goals of international relations – Annan
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20930&Cr=annan&Cr1=
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Third, both security and prosperity depend on human rights and the rule of law.
Fourth, states must be accountable to each other, and to a broad range of non-state actors, in their international conduct.
My fifth and final lesson derives inescapably from those other four. We can only do all these things by working together through a multilateral system, and by making the best possible use of the unique instrument bequeathed to us by Harry Truman and his contemporaries, namely the United Nations.
Full Text:
Independence, Missouri, 11 December 2006 - Secretary-General's address at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library
http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=2357
Please also see:
Annan chides US in final speech
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6169669.stm
UN remains best device for achieving key goals of international relations – Annan
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20930&Cr=annan&Cr1=
Please click photo for clarity.