Miroslav Lajcak Quotes

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

The U.N. was created for people.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

I am totally committed to the cooperation between the African Union and the United Nations.

The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.

The United Nations should serve as a forum to address our common challenges. And it must also be a space to generate solutions for mutual benefit. This is the very essence of what the United Nations is about. We must position the multilateral system to better serve our people and deliver on their aspirations.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

Cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Respecting the United Nations as the living sign of all people's hope for peace, we shall strive to make it not merely an eloquent symbol but an effective force