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]
„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].
„I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. … Education itself — which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people — sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour … It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.“
— 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)
„Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.“
— 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)
„I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
On the Bosnian War, as quoted in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
„I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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 concept of peace is easy to grasp; that of international security is more complex, for a pattern of contradictions has arisen here as well. As major nuclear Powers have begun to negotiate arms reduction agreements, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction threatens to increase and conventional arms continue to be amassed in many parts of the world. As racism becomes recognized for the destructive force it is and as apartheid is being dismantled, new racial tensions are rising and finding expression in violence. Technological advances are altering the nature and the expectation of life all over the globe. The revolution in communications has united the world in awareness, in aspiration and in greater solidarity against injustice. But progress also brings new risks for stability: ecological damage, disruption of family and community life, greater intrusion into the lives and rights of individuals.“
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali
An Agenda for Peace : Preventive diplomacy, peacemaking and peace-keeping (1992)
„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?
