Frases de Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Fecha de nacimiento: 14. Noviembre 1922
Fecha de muerte: 16. Febrero 2016
Butros Butros-Ghali fue un diplomático egipcio que ocupó el cargo de Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas entre enero de 1992 y diciembre de 1996.
Frases Boutros Boutros-Ghali
„Disneyland is not an independent state.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Context: No, because Disneyland is not an independent state.
As quoted in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P9J1wCgNM "War"] (28 February 2003), [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2 Da Ali G Show]
„The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Statement of 1993, as quoted in The Coming Plague : Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1995) by Laurie Garrett, p. 592, and in Preventive Diplomacy : Stopping Wars before they Start (1996) by Kevin M. Cahill, p. 254
„There are signs that the system of collective security established in San Francisco nearly 50 years ago [at the founding of the UN] is finally beginning to work as conceived. . . We are on the way to achieving a workable international system.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Cited in the Awake! magazine 1996, 4/22; article: Is a World Without War Possible?
„It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. This is why the weak are so deeply concerned with the democratic principle of the sovereign equality of states, as a means of providing some small measure of equality for that which is not equal in fact. Coming from a developing country, I was trained extensively in international law and diplomacy and mistakenly assumed that the great powers, especially the United States, also trained their representatives in diplomacy and accepted the value of it. But the Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States. Diplomacy is perceived by an imperial power as a waste of time and prestige and a sign of weakness.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Unvanquished : A U.S. - U.N. Saga (1999), p. 198.
„Only stupid people don't change their minds.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
On why he sought a second 5 year term as Secretary General of the UN, having initially planned on serving only one, [http://www.globalpolicy.org/secgen/boutros/1996/deborch1.htm "The Change in the Administration's Position is a Mystery"] Interview with The Washington Times (11 November 1996)
„While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably … We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006)
„Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
In a speech in 1992. Cited in Awake! magazine, 1995, 9/8; article: How Was the World 50 Years Ago?
„We have entered a time of global transition marked by uniquely contradictory trends. Regional and continental associations of States are evolving ways to deepen cooperation and ease some of the contentious characteristics of sovereign and nationalistic rivalries. National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations. At the same time, however, fierce new assertions of nationalism and sovereignty spring up, and the cohesion of States is threatened by brutal ethnic, religious, social, cultural or linguistic strife. Social peace is challenged on the one hand by new assertions of discrimination and exclusion and, on the other, by acts of terrorism seeking to undermine evolution and change through democratic means.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
An Agenda for Peace : Preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping (1992) - [https://archive.is/20120530041405/www.un.org/Docs/SG/agpeace.html online text].
