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Matteo Renzi

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2014-09-24

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2016-09-24

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un-general-debate

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1. “The year 2015 is the year in which we will recall the twentieth anniversary of what happened in Srebrenica, when international institutions remained silent before one of the worst massacres and genocides that still today finds no justification. That is why we need to repeat in this Hall today that it is time for politics to return to finding a definition of a future of hope. My generation grew up hearing that history had ended, that the century that had just passed was a short century in which we had already seen everything. But history has not ended, the century we have left behind us was not short, and today, we must say that the political way is the only way to prevent the bloodletting that is causing so much grief in the Mediterranean, in the Middle East, in Ukraine and in many regions of Africa.”

   2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)

2. “For all that shall be — yes”, which Dag Hammarskj.ld wrote in his diary, the United Nations was something more than a political programme, it was the very idea of a definition of politics. Yet today, the future appears threatening. The future is frightening. The future is no longer promising. We want to believe that it is possible to return to the idea of tomorrow. It is the dream of the United Nations to return to the goal of preserving future generations from the horrors of war. Today, however, we must have the courage also to say, when looking back at the history of the Organization, that the errors of the past cannot be erased.”

   2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)

3. “I would like to greet the General Assembly and to confess how deeply moved I feel to be here. For those who have never spoken in the Assembly Hall, it remains a place of extraordinary fascination and appeal. For those who have become accustomed to being in such halls, they may consider it as something already seen and experienced. For someone like me, who is in the Hall for the first time today, the emotion is overwhelming to find oneself in the place where there is a sense of still being able to build a horizon of human rights, respect, freedom and peace. I feel the emotion of the future in a place where a great Secretary-General, Mr. Dag Hammarskj.ld, had the strength, the vision and the intuition to design a different world. For those, like us, who grew up with that model, the statement “For all that has been — thanks.”

   2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)