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
„Desde la creación de las Naciones Unidas, en 1945, han perdido la vida aproximadamente 20 millones de personas debido a más de cien conflictos importantes ocurridos en todo el mundo.“
Fuente: Discurso ante la Organización de las Naciones Unidas en 1992. An Agenda for peace.
Fuente: http://www.un.org/en/sc/repertoire/89-92/Chapter%208/GENERAL%20ISSUES/Item%2029_Agenda%20for%20peace_.pdf
„Las Naciones Unidas debieron presenciar, impotentes, muchas de esas crisis debido a repetidos vetos en el Consejo de Seguridad —llegaron a registrarse 279—, clara expresión de las divisiones de ese período [de la Guerra Fría entre los bloques capitalista y comunista].“
Fuente: El secretario general Boutros Boutros-Ghali expresó lo anterior en su discurso "Un programa de paz".
Fuente: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/55/305
„Entre 1945 y 1987 se organizaron 13 operaciones de mantenimiento de la paz; desde entonces ha habido otras 13. Hasta enero de 1992 se calculaba que 528.000 personas habían prestado servicios bajo la bandera de las Naciones Unidas en calidad de personal militar, personal de policía y personal civil. Más de 800 de ellos, procedentes de 43 países, han muerto al servicio de la Organización. Hasta 1992, el total de gastos de estas operaciones ascendían a 8.300 millones de dólares.“
Fuente: El secretario general Boutros Boutros-Ghali expresó lo anterior en su discurso "Un programa de paz".
Fuente: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/55/305
„No es solo un fracaso de las Naciones Unidas, sino también de la comunidad internacional, y todos compartimos la responsabilidad —se lamentó el secretario general de la ONU, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, refiriéndose a la matanza de Ruanda—. Se ha cometido un genocidio. Más de doscientas mil personas han sido asesinadas y la comunidad internacional aún sigue discutiendo qué hacer.“
Fuente: Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide International panel of eminent personalities, 1991.
Fuente: http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4d1da8752.pdf
„Disneyland is not an independent state.“
As quoted in "War" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P9J1wCgNM (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2
2000s
Contexto: No, because Disneyland is not an independent state.
„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.“
Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006)
2000s
„The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.“
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
1990s
„Only stupid people don't change their minds.“
On why he sought a second 5 year term as Secretary General of the UN, having initially planned on serving only one, "The Change in the Administration's Position is a Mystery" http://www.globalpolicy.org/secgen/boutros/1996/deborch1.htm Interview with The Washington Times (11 November 1996)
1990s
„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.“
Cited in the Awake! magazine 1996, 4/22; article: Is a World Without War Possible?
1990s
„Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.“
In a speech in 1992. Cited in Awake! magazine, 1995, 9/8; article: How Was the World 50 Years Ago?
1990s
„The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.“
Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006) http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/777/profile.htm
2000s
„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.“
Quoted in "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster" by Gamal Nkrumah in Al-Ahram weekly No. 777 (10 - 18 January 2006)
2000s
„I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.“
On the Bosnian War, as quoted in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
1990s
„I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.“
As quoted in "War" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P9J1wCgNM (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2
2000s