What role can the UN play in shaping a new world order?
Ladies and Gentlemen, One should never be too quick to predict the demise of something. This also applies to the United Nations, to which there is still no alternative. Indeed, the UN will take on even greater importance in the future: It will become increasingly important for the developed states, for it alone provides a framework of rules to fight against terrorism and the collapse of states. It will become increasingly important for the poor countries, for it alone can summon up the staying power needed to fight poverty and under-development. It will become increasingly important for the whole world, for it alone, as a forum of peoples, can prevent a situation where new blocs of influence face each other in an atmosphere of confrontation. (...)
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Speech on the seminar of the Communist Party of China in Peking, 18 October 2004