Frases de Boutros Boutros-Ghali

„El mundo atraviesa una crisis que en muchas sociedades es de proporciones inmensas”.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

„No hemos actuado lo bastante deprisa —dijo a un grupo de expertos a principios de 1993—. El propósito de haberlos convocado ahora en lugar de más adelante es para ver si podemos recuperar el tiempo perdido.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

„Hay indicios de que el sistema de seguridad colectiva instaurado en San Francisco hace casi cincuenta años [cuando se fundó la ONU] va a funcionar finalmente del modo que se planeó. […] Nos hallamos en vías de alcanzar un sistema internacional eficiente”.“

—  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.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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].“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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.“

—  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)
2000s

„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)
1990s

„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
1990s

„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.
1990s

„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, "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.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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.“

—  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) 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.“

—  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)
2000s

„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)
1990s

„I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.“

—  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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