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David Cameron

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52

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2011-09-24

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2014-09-24

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3

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1. “So the events of this year present a challenge to all of us — a challenge to Europe to show it can reform its aid and trade strategy to be truly progressive; a challenge to the African Union, to meet the opportunities of this century with the same courage that won liberation in the last; a challenge to the Israelis and Palestinians, to take the bold steps to come to the table and make lasting peace; a challenge to Iran and to Syria, to give their peoples the freedoms they deserve; and a challenge to the United Nations. One can sign every human rights declaration in the world, but if one stands by and watches people being slaughtered in their own country when one could 25 11-50865 act, then what are those signatures really worth?”

   2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)

2. “It is an honour to address the General Assembly for the first time, and it is a particular honour to do so as such momentous events unfold in the Arab world. Last week I was in Tripoli and Benghazi. I saw the hunger of a people eager to get on with reclaiming their country, writing themselves a new chapter of freedom and democracy. This has been the most dramatic episode of what has been called the Arab Spring. My argument today is that Libya and the Arab Spring show that the United Nations needs a new way of working, because the Arab Spring is a massive opportunity to spread peace, prosperity, democracy and, vitally, security, but only if we really seize the opportunity.”

   2011-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 66 (2011)