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Millennium
Forum
United Nations Secretary
General: Kofi
Annan
Address
to the Millennium Forum
New
York, 22 May 2000
Dear
friends,
 I
am delighted to welcome you all to the United Nations.
Warm greetings also to those watching in Geneva, Nairobi,
Vienna, Buenos Aires, Chicago -- and on the Web.
The
sight of so many of you in the General Assembly chamber
this morning is living proof of your commitment to work
with the United Nations and Governments to make the world
a better place.
Not
only do you bring to life the concept of
"We, the Peoples", in whose name our
United Nations Charter was written; you bring to us the
promise that "people power" can make the Charter
work for all the world's peoples in the 21st
century.
The
Millennium Forum
(22-26 MAY 2000)
THE
UN IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Opening Plenary -- Monday,
22 May 2000 -- 10:30 am
Opening Statement by Techeste Ahderom
Co-Chair, The Millennium Forum
Mr.
Secretary General, Excellencies, Invited Guests, and
Distinguished Participants and Observers
Welcome
to the Millennium Forum.
In
the coming days, we, the representatives of non-governmental
organizations and other members of civil society from all
over the world, will consult about humanity’s common future
and, particularly, about the role of the United Nations in
confronting the great global challenges of the 21st Century.
We
are here to give the benefit of our expertise and experience
-- of which we have much -- in considering how the
emerging global civilization can best establish a just and
lasting peace, completely eradicate poverty from the face of
our planet, and see that human rights everywhere are upheld
-- at all times.
We
are here to consider how best to set humanity on a path of
sustainable development and protect our shared environment.
We are here to come to grips with the urgent challenges posed
by the processes of globalization, an accelerating force in
our world which has both potentially good and bad effects and
which will require carefully coordinated efforts to ensure
that only the good ones prevail.
The
Millennium Forum Declaration
An
Agenda of “We the Peoples …. Millennium Forum”
The
UN for the 21st Century
"At
the dawn of the new millennium, we, the representatives of
worldwide civil society, see an urgent need to embrace and
affirm a bold vision of humanity's future – and then to
call for and take action toward its realization. "
Statement
by His Royal Highness Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz
President
of Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations Development
Organizations (AGFUND)
At
the Inaugural Meeting of the Millennium Forum
. New
York, 22-26 May 2000
(22
May 2000)
Speech
by Maj Britt
Theorin
President
of the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities
in the European Parliament, president of the International
Peace Bureau (IPB) and of Parliamentarians for Global
Action (PGA),
Millenium
Forum in New York 22 May 2000.
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