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HRH
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein
is the Permanent Representative of Jordan to the
United Nations, and a candidate for
Secretary-General of the United Nations. See
Bio.
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Prince Zeid, Jordan’s
ambassador to the United Nations, today announced
his candidacy to become the next U.N.
Secretary-General to succeed Kofi Annan.
Prince Zeid is the fifth declared candidate so far for the post.
Other candidates
include: South Korea’s Foreign Minister,
Ban Ki
Moon; India’s Shashi Tharoor, U.N. Under
Secretary
General
for Public Information; Sri Lanka’s Jayantha
Dhanapala, a former U.N. Under
Secretary
General;
and Thailand’s
Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai.
A
21st CENTURY U.N. by PRINCE ZEID (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com
UN/ - 6 September 2006 --
A conflict erupts in an
explosive part of the world and the United Nations is
asked to serve as the only mediating force acceptable to
all sides.
A natural disaster
engulfs an entire region, and the United Nations is asked
to coordinate an unprecedented relief operation.
Does this mean the
United Nations is important? Yes.
Does
it mean that it is equipped to succeed? No - not now, not
yet, not without a genuine renewal to make it a Twenty-First
century agent
for change and progress.
The
UN’s recent centrality to resolving
conflicts and alleviating suffering around the world
should serve – not as cause for complacency – but as a
spur to deeper change as its looks to new leadership at
the end of this year.
A
Twenty-First
century United
Nations worthy of the hopes and aspirations of a new, post
-Cold War generation of citizens in every part of the
world must be guided by five central principles -
Reflect
the initiative and innovation of a new generation of
leaders driving progress throughout the world in
development, peace and human rights.
From
Shanghai
to
Santiago
, from
Johannesburg
to
London
, we are witnessing the rise of a new generation of
builders -- men and women of every race and creed creating
growth and development by harnessing the potential of
globalization for the benefit of their societies.
To succeed in the Twenty-First
century, the
United Nations must partner with these forces of progress
and modernity.
Serve
as a bridge between cultures and faiths in search of peace
and development.
The
ongoing deadly conflicts in the Middle East, and the
terrorist attacks of 11
September 2001
and those that have followed them -- from Bali to Madrid
and London to Amman -- have made plain the urgent need to
prevent extremism from succeeding in creating further
victims and divisions between peoples.
A
United Nations that understands the sources of these
schisms, where they occur, and can speak to all sides with
experience and credibility, can play an important role in
resolving these dangerous conflicts.
Engage
today’s threats as a peacekeeper and mediator with
vision and credibility.
The
recent outbreak of war in
Lebanon
and the ongoing conflicts in
Africa
have reminded the world of the UN’s unique legitimacy in
restoring peace and security.
Global legitimacy, on its own, however, is not
enough.
The
UN must also be effective and principled in the face of
war. Only by
applying the lessons of the peacekeeping failures of the
1990s –
Bosnia
and
Rwanda
in particular – can it lay claim to being the
peacekeeper of the Twenty-First
century.
Advocate
the cause of international justice.
Wherever peace is threatened and development is imperiled, the rule of law is the beginning of the answer.
The United Nations has played a central role in
promoting the rule of law – both at the national and
international level – but can and must do more to put
the rule of law at the service of the world’s peoples.
Renew
itself at the speed of globalization.
To deliver on its founding promise, the United Nations must be willing
to challenge its own practices and structures as never
before – its governance, its management, its practices
in the field, its willingness to hold itself and everyone
who serves under its flag accountable to the highest
standards of integrity and excellence.
The Twenty-First
century has already brought immeasurable progress to those societies
able to seize on the opportunities of globalization –
the United Nations must learn from them, and become an
agent as well as a beneficiary of that progress.
To succeed today, the United
Nations cannot merely serve as a tool for the large and
powerful countries of the world to dominate the global
agenda. Nor
must it be used simply as an instrument of smaller
countries to delay or deter necessary change. Renewed by
all and for all in the Twenty-First
century, the
United Nations can fulfill its founding promise.
PrinceZeid@MaximsNews.com
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