While he welcomed what he termed an unmistakable record of achievement and hard-won progress ... no time for complacency when it comes to the threat of nuclear war.
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We gathered to demonstrate our support for and commitment to the new government of Lebanon as it works to reaffirm Lebanon's sovereignty, engage in vital reforms and strengthen Lebanon's democratic institutions, ... The international community remains steadfast in its determination to ensure that outside actors end all interference in the domestic affairs of Lebanon.Kofi Annan
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself,
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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
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This logic represents a fundamental challenge to the principles on which, however imperfectly, world peace and stability have rested for the last 58 years, ... My concern is that, if it were adopted, it could set precedents that resulted in a proliferation of the unilateral and lawless use of force, with or without credible justification.
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Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
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Yet again, we face the abominable practice of 'ethnic cleansing' only a few years after it transformed the demography of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... The Serbian authorities must halt such actions.
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