No one is born a good citizen no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.
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Large-scale military operations in pursuit of Palestinian militants -- involving ground troops, attack helicopters, tanks and F-16s -- have taken place throughout civilian areas and refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, causing large-scale loss of life.Kofi Annan
from Sierra Leone to the Sudan , to Angola , to the Balkans and Cambodia , and to Afghanistan -- there are great numbers of people who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community.
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But our founders were not pacifists. They knew there would be times when force must be met by force.
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Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.
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and measures that ought to be taken to ensure what has happened this year does not happen in the future.
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Now we have a different situation, where one group of states, led by the U. S., is saying that some threats -- particularly terrorism and weapons of mass destruction -- are so dangerous that they dare not wait until they are attacked, or until there is an agreement in the Security Council, before taking action,
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