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“ Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. ”

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More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.

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If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.

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Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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