UN Leader
Dag Hammarskjöld
UN Secretary-General 1953-1961
1905 – 1961
440
Total Mentions
4
Direct Quotes
1953
First Mention
2024
Latest Mention
Most Frequent Citing Countries
Sweden(14)United States of America(11)Netherlands(11)Australia(9)Brazil(8)Turkey(7)Philippines(7)Lebanon(7)
Direct Quotations (4)
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
2024Malta
View Speech"The weakness of one is the weakness of all."
2021Belgium
View Speech"The United Nations is, and should be, a living, evolving, experimental institution. If it should ever cease to be so, it should be revolutionized or swept aside for a new approach."
1993Sweden
View Speech"A failure to gain respect for decisions or actions of the Organization within the terms of the Charter is often called a failure for the Organization. It would seem more correct to regard it as a failure of the world community, through its Member nations and in particular those most directly concerned, to co-operate in order, step by step, to make the Charter a living reality in practical politica..."
1983FDR
View SpeechAll Mentions (96)
2017·Sweden
ViewIn 1954, former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld stated that the United Nations was not created to bring us to heaven, but to save us from hell. The need for a United Nations that seeks to save us f
1961·New Zealand
Viewtly outlined in what has been described as the "political testament" of our late Secretary-General. I can do no better than conclude by recalling Mr. Hammarskjold's words, when he wrote, in the introduction to his annual report on the work of the Organization: "The effort through the Organization to find a way
1961·Venezuela
Viewinance of truly international interests and purposes, the result would be to subject that organ to daily disputes. In this respect, we agree with Mr. Hammarskjold's ideas, as expressed in the last document put out by him (Introduction to the Annual Report of the Secretary- General on the Work of the Organizatio
1960·Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
ViewReplying here to the just charges, Mr. Hammarskjold stated on 26 September 1960 [871st meeting] that in putting into practice the decisions of the Security Council in regard to the Congo, he was guided
2024·Democratic Republic of Congo
Viewtment to multilateralism, which is the key to truly transformative solutions to the challenges plaguing our world. As former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who gave his life for peace in the Congo, wisely said: **"The purpose of the United Nations is not to take humanity to heaven but to save it from he
2023·Vietnam
Viewm unilateral actions and address disputes and differences by peaceful means, including diplomatic and legal processes. The late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold once referred to the United Nations as the new Santa Maria that can help us to brave tempestuous storms and explore uncharted seas of peace, stabilit
2023·European Union
ViewThe late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. however, wisely said: “The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell”. We need to acknowledge
2022·Sweden
Viewesting in peace and sustainable development. Efforts must continue to bring clarity to the circumstances of the death of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and his crew. We fully support the work of the United Nations- appointed independent investigator. To echo the topic of today’s debate, we are at a w
2022·Bahamas
Viewnflation or tackle global criminal networks. Those problems require collective action. It was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold, who was candid about the purpose of this Organization. The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, he said, but to save us fr
2022·Russia
View, people tend to rely on and find solace in the wisdom of predecessors who endured similarly challenging hardships. The former Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjold, recalling the horrors of the Second World War, said that “[t]he United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save
2022·Serbia
Viewbal security. We found the inspiration for the respective in the words of one of the greatest diplomats in history and a great Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, that this Organization “was not created to take mankind into paradise, but rather to save humanity from hell”. From the moment we curbed the global
2022·Japan
Viewional order that is based on the rule of law. To that end, we must reform the United Nations and strengthen its functions. The late Secretary-General Hammarskjold, who was killed in the line of duty while attempting to mediate a ceasefire during the Congo crisis, said that “[i]t is our responsibility to remedy
2022·Netherlands
ViewMr. Gorbachev’s legacy have shown, we will always have a choice to make. It is the choice between “might is right” and, in the words of the great Dag Hammarskjold, “an international community living in peace under the laws of justice” (A/PV.690, para. 68). That is my message today — working together under the l
2022·Finland
Viewengthened. For decades, arms control has provided stability and predictability in great power relationships and international relations. To quote Dag Hammarskjold, “disarmament is never the result only of the political situation; it is also partly instrumental in creating the political situation”. The two bigge
2020·Republic of North Macedonia
Viewonsciousness and conscience for the global good awake. When it comes to our shared goals, let me recall the words of the former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, who said that the purposes of the Charter “are expressions of universally shared ideals which cannot fail us, though we, alas, often fail them”. In
2020·Republic of Belarus
Viewld also like to recall one of the outstanding historical figures of the United Nations — Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjold, whose 115th birthday was commemorated this year. He is considered one of the inspirations and tireless promoters of the concept of preventive diplom
2020·Republic of Niger
Viewps the most important lesson, Mr. President, that the COVID-19 crisis will have taught us. With this in mind, I would like to recall the words of Dag Hammarskjold who said that the United Nations was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell. Today we need a more agile, more democrat
2020·Republic of Iceland
View vital body. Mr President, “The UN was not created to take mankind into paradise but rather to save humanity from hell”, former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold famously once said. As we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, we should be mindful that this organization has been a catalyst for h
2019·Democratic Republic of the Congo
Viewtre of the Organization’s concerns owing to the many crises it has experienced since its independence. From the tragic death of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold and the many peacekeepers killed in action to the recent heinous assassination of United Nations experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp, the United
2018·Thailand
Viewake the Organization more relevant to all people. As a small country, Thailand takes to heart the conviction of the late former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld that, ultimately, international law is the last defence of small countries. Thailand views the United Nations as an embodiment of international law i
2017·Solomon Islands
Viewal village. People know what it does but do not see much value in it. It is inevitably imperfect. As the Organization’s second Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld, famously said, “The United Nations was not created to take humanity to heaven, but to save it from hell”. The Organization’s imperfections, however,
2017·Monaco
Views, I once again wish to associate my country with the efforts of the international community to promote their fundamental freedom and dignity. As Dag Hammarskjöld so aptly observed, “The United Nations was not created to lead mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.” Attacks on innocent civilians affe
2016·Belarus
Viewnges for us. Looking at the prospects for their implementation, I call on everyone to be guided by the words of the second Secretary-General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, who said, “Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”
2015·Sweden
ViewSixty years ago, Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjöld said these simple words, which summarize our task here today: “The United Nations is an expression of our will to find a synthesis between the nation
2015·Turkey
Viewnt of the General Assembly at the sixty-ninth session. Seventy years ago, our Organization was created — in the words of former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld — “not to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell”. Looking back, the United Nations has been instrumental in averting another and eve
2015·Luxembourg
ViewThe United Nations was created, not to lead humankind to heaven but to save it from hell. These were the apt words of Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, who served as the second Secretary-General, from 1953 to 1961, and saw things for what they were. The United Nations was created according to the pe
2014·Ghana
Viewerely setbacks that will motivate us to find more sustainable solutions; they are just slight reversals on the sinuous path toward true progress. Dag Hammarskjöld, who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1953 until his untimely death in a plane crash in 1961, said, “The pursuit of
2014·Sweden
View is a work in progress, to which we all must contribute. Sweden is prepared to do its part. I will make one final point. It is now 53 years since Dag Hammarskjöld lost his life while on mission in Africa.
2014·Netherlands
Viewmber States were more broadly represented. That is especially true of the African States which, in our opinion, are underrepresented. In closing, Dag Hammarskjöld once said that “[t]he principles of the Charter are, by far, greater than the Organization in which they are embodied, and the aims which they are to
2014·Italy
Viewd men. That is why I believe that, while we are living in difficult times, we are also living in a time when we must, as former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld put it, say yes to the future. He also said, “We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours”. We are not p
2013·Republic of Korea
ViewAs former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld once said, we should “recognize the United Nations for what it is — an admittedly imperfect but indispensable instrument of nations working for a pea
2012·Monaco
Viewe, we need to resort to the peaceful settlement of our disputes and seek to prevent rather than react to events. In the 1950s, Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjöld urged us to be mindful of the need to respond at an early stage to crises in order to avoid the outbreak of disputes between parties or the conf lagr
2012·Canada
Viewonours its word, repudiates its commitments and threatens to perpetuate crimes against humanity. Canada’s philosophy is captured in the wisdom of Dag Hammarskjöld, the second United Nations Secretary-General, killed 51 years ago while fighting for peace and justice. He advised: “Never, for the sake of peace and
2011·Canada
Viewtice, it is not easy to uphold principles. It requires struggle and sacrifice. Some pay the ultimate price. The world remembers Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was killed 50 years ago this month. We honour him for his integrity, his principles and for his great courage in confronting power. We also reme
2011·Mozambique
Viewon takes place in the year in which the United Nations family recalls the fiftieth anniversary of the physical disappearance of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. It is also 25 years since the assassination, by apartheid, of our late President Samora Moisés Machel.
2011·Madagascar
View help of international mediation, which has allowed the Malagasy to reach a promising consensus. I also wish to pay a sincere tribute to the late Dag Hammarskjöld, the former Secretary-General of this great Organization, a pioneer of preventive diplomacy and an architect of the concept of peacekeeping, as we ma
2011·Sweden
View enjoyment of human rights — making rights real. This week we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the Swedish Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjöld. He played an important role in reforming and shaping the United Nations as we know it today. Let me conclude with these words from Dag Hammarskjöld:
2011·Belgium
Viewpect for democratic rules. Let us finally look at the Middle East, a conflict region that has this week received much attention here in the Hall. Dag Hammarskjöld, to whom this week is dedicated and who himself devoted much of his effort to finding a lasting peace in that region, said more than half a century a
2010·Libyan Arab Jamahiiya
Viewthe Revolution, our brother, Colonel Muammar Al-Qadhafi, also raised the question of the political assassination of many personalities, including Dag Hammarskjöld, John Kennedy, Patrice Lumumba, Martin Luther King, Maurice Bishop and many Palestine Liberation Organization leaders. Those assassinations shocked t
2010·Netherlands
View us that a practical step-by-step approach is a more effective way to reform a large organization than reliance on a “big- bang” strategy. Or, as Dag Hammarskjöld, one of the great leaders of the United Nations, put it, “Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surge
2010·Australia
Viewd Nations since the very beginning. The United Nations is inevitably imperfect. As the Organization’s second Secretary-General — the great Swede, Dag Hammarskjöld — famously said, “The United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell”. Our responsibility today is
2009·Libya
Viewn struggle, was assassinated. We want to know the facts, even 50 years on. That is one file that should be reopened. And who killed Secretary-General Hammarskjöld? Who fired on his aeroplane in 1961, and why? Then, there is the assassination of United States President Kennedy in 1963. We want to know who killed
2009·Portugal
Viewctive response. Today, more than ever, the collective interest reflects the national concern of each of us. Today, more than ever, I subscribe to Dag Hammarskjöld’s vision of a United Nations as a dynamic instrument to develop means of executive action that is not limited to being simply a mechanism consisting
2009·Sweden
Viewights can bring peace and stability to the people that they say they represent. The Swedish statesman and former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld once said that the pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never aban
2007·Bangladesh
Viewontinuing evolution. It is our collective responsibility to make the United Nations more relevant to the present day world, to fulfil the promise Dag Hammarskjöld spoke of when he said, “The day will come when men will see the United Nations and what it means clearly.” The Secretary-General’s report on system-w
2005·Uganda
View negative tendencies. The cold war further exacerbated the situation as the East battled the West for influence. Indeed, former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld lost his life in the context of that explosive political mix. As Africa struggles to set its house in order, Uganda has identified four main causes o
2005·Macedonia
View the United Nations reform proposals. Freedom from fear could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights, as former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld put it. It has long been a strong position of my country that respect for those principles, coupled with development, is the best conflict-prevention
2005·Slovenia
Viewief in the achievements of creative development for the well-being of the people of the modern world, to quote, Sir, your illustrious compatriot, Dag Hammarskjöld. The outcome document contains numerous meaningful and useful ideas. That document’s purpose is to enhance the effectiveness of the United Nations an
2005·Zambia
Viewc bond of friendship 05-51226 9 that exists between our countries. It was in our country that your illustrious compatriot, then Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, lost his life in 1961 while on a mission for peace in the Congo. I pay tribute to your predecessor, His Excellency Mr. Jean Ping, Minister for Forei
2005·DRC
Viewstiny of an eminent citizen of his country, Sweden, who gained fame in my country for his commitment to the cause of peace. I am referring to Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. As the President has assumed his functions in September, it should be recalled that on 20 Septem
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| Year | Country | Speech |
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| 2017 | Sweden | View |
| 1961 | New Zealand | View |
| 1961 | Venezuela | View |
| 1960 | Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic | View |
| 2024 | Democratic Republic of Congo | View |
| 2023 | Vietnam | View |
| 2023 | European Union | View |
| 2022 | Sweden | View |
| 2022 | Bahamas | View |
| 2022 | Russia | View |
| 2022 | Serbia | View |
| 2022 | Japan | View |
| 2022 | Netherlands | View |
| 2022 | Finland | View |
| 2020 | Republic of North Macedonia | View |
| 2020 | Republic of Belarus | View |
| 2020 | Republic of Niger | View |
| 2020 | Republic of Iceland | View |
| 2019 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | View |
| 2018 | Thailand | View |
| 2017 | Solomon Islands | View |
| 2017 | Monaco | View |
| 2016 | Belarus | View |
| 2015 | Sweden | View |
| 2015 | Turkey | View |
| 2015 | Luxembourg | View |
| 2014 | Ghana | View |
| 2014 | Sweden | View |
| 2014 | Netherlands | View |
| 2014 | Italy | View |
| 2013 | Republic of Korea | View |
| 2012 | Monaco | View |
| 2012 | Canada | View |
| 2011 | Canada | View |
| 2011 | Mozambique | View |
| 2011 | Madagascar | View |
| 2011 | Sweden | View |
| 2011 | Belgium | View |
| 2010 | Libyan Arab Jamahiiya | View |
| 2010 | Netherlands | View |
| 2010 | Australia | View |
| 2009 | Libya | View |
| 2009 | Portugal | View |
| 2009 | Sweden | View |
| 2007 | Bangladesh | View |
| 2005 | Uganda | View |
| 2005 | Macedonia | View |
| 2005 | Slovenia | View |
| 2005 | Zambia | View |
| 2005 | DRC | View |
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