"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."
"The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because the world was changing, and is changing very fast, and I felt the UN was holding on to old arrangements. Most governments felt that it has such a narrow power base, based on the results of the second world war."
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Source: Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.
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