Putin's UN Speech of 26 September
2003
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Concepts:
united nations, Russia, Security Council, effectiveness, terrorism, politicians, threats, countries, instruments, militarization, community, economy, Iraq, cooperation, responsibility.
Summary:
- In his speech, carried live on Russian Channel One TV and Mayak radio, Putin stressed the significance of UN direct involvement in rebuilding Iraq, noted the UN role in fighting terrorism, and spoke of the need to reform the UN and to increase the effectiveness of its Security Council.
- Putin also called for a continued fight against proliferation and space militarization, and detailed the commitments to the UN that Russia was undertaking.
- Despite serious differences over ways of resolving the Iraq crisis, at the end of the day the situation is gradually returning into the legal field of the United Nations.
- Only with active and I would like to stress practical contribution of the UN to the establishment of its economic and civil system, will Iraq be able to take a new and appropriate position in the international community.
- Yes, it is true that we have begun taking heed of one another and we have begun to realize that the UN must become and is indeed becoming the foundation of a global antiterrorist coalition.
- Over the past three years, Russia has written off a total of 27.2bn dollars' worth of the developing countries' debt.
- For the first time in many years, as the Russian economy itself has grown, our country has become a UN World Food Programme donor.
- For it is far from always the case that politicians, including those represented at the United Nations and its Security Council, have adequate and effective legal instruments; instruments allowing international and regional crises to be overcome in an appropriate manner.
- Regional cooperation benefits global community Yes, we often hear that developed countries bear special responsibility for the world's fate.
- But that sort of leadership brings a great deal of responsibility, and, first and foremost, the responsibility to take account of the interests of the world community as a whole.
- This paves the way straight to growth in the economic prosperity of various parts of the world, and, correspondingly, to the deterrence of potential threats and to the maintenance of a general strategic balance in the world.
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