I hope the Iraqis understand that their isolation could be much worse than it is today.
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International issues are national, and so many local issues - migration, communicable diseases, organized crime - end up touching everyone. At the same time there is such suspicion. It is quite a paradox.Jan Eliasson
Who is right The answer, I believe, is up to us, ... The document should, as one speaker put it, be a beachhead of common ground from which we launch ourselves forward with urgency and common purpose.
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While we will build on the positive achievements and best practices of the Commission, some of the elements we are considering will make the Human Rights Council a truly new and different body a fresh start.
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We are facing an escalation that could end in armed conflict, with terrible suffering as a result. That's why the world should be very careful at the moment.
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