John F. Kennedy

confrontation. When any person suffers, it concerns us all. When one nation is at war, we are all at war and there is no peace. As President John F. Kennedy stated in his commencement speech at American University, on 10 June 1963, “[G]enuine peace [is] the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth liv

that the principle of neutrality is recognized by them, it would be foolish to provoke pointless crises once again. 01. In his speech here, President Kennedy stated bluntly that the United States will support "a truly neutral and independent Laos, its people free from outside interference living at peace w

of humanity, there is no end in sight to this geopolitical nightmare. I would not like to see the wise words of the former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy becoming the words of a prophet: “Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind.” Today, mankind relies more on technology than i

As the United States President John Kennedy said, we cannot negotiate with people who say what is mine is mine and what is yours is negotiable. That is why, as I see it, a lasting solution shou

The late United States Senator from New York, Robert Kennedy, paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw, once said, “Some [men] see things as they are, and [ask] ‘why?’ I dream [of] things that never were and [ask], ‘Wh

nment. Last but not least, as I speak of reviving peace in the Republic of South Sudan, it is only right to mention the late former President John F. Kennedy, who said in an address to the Assembly on 20 September 1963: “Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly ero

ensuring peace. I have to admit that the statement dates back even further than the report of the North-South Commission. It was delivered by John F. Kennedy in 1963. We can see that everything that we need for a safer future has already been considered, written and said. I believe that today we should foc

me an example of what can be accomplished in such times. We are a nation that intimately understands those famous words of American President John F. Kennedy, who said: “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind” (A/PV.1013, para. 40). The theme of this year’s session — peace, secur

rs of the United Nations. There have been problems, of course, but there have also been successes. In the words of the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy “Let us not curse the remaining dark. Let us continue to gather the light.” There will continue to be challenges and difficult issues that test the r

f priorities that places people and the alleviation of poverty at the centre of our developmental discourse. The late United States President John F. Kennedy once said that if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. The fortress of wealth is not impregnable to

ce of international cooperation. Because our democratic transformation has been so hard, we do not take anything for granted. To paraphrase President Kennedy: we do not do these things because they are easy, we do them because they are hard. During difficult times, the Georgian people took to the streets i

r of violent extremism, which has ravaged so many parts of the Muslim world. Of course, terrorism is not new. Speaking before the Assembly, President Kennedy put it well: “Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail either by persuasion or by example.” (A/

is to listen to the calls of the people for peace, and employ that in tirelessly seeking to elevate human dignity as our guiding star. President John Kennedy spoke from this rostrum 50 years ago, the last time he would do so at the United Nations before being assassinated. How good it would be if his curre

The United Nations, which we would like to see become more transparent, dynamic and democratic, cannot avoid that law of nature. As President John F. Kennedy noted as early as in 1963, at the eighteenth session of the General Assembly, “The United Nations cannot survive as a static Organization. Its obliga

should support the Israeli- Palestinian talks. Only a political solution can lead to lasting peace. Fifty years ago, United States President John F. Kennedy expressed the fear that in the 1970s there would be 15, 20 or even 25 nuclear-weapon States. Thanks in part to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of

tack on one member country would be considered an attack on all. NATO’s red line helped keep the peace in Europe for nearly half a century. President Kennedy set a red line during the Cuban missile crisis. That red line also prevented war and helped preserve the peace for decades.

nt and to the overall improvement and enrichment of our people’s lives. It is therefore no wonder that, in 1961, when United States President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps, its very first mission was in Ghana. In the past two decades, Ghana’s position on peace has been tested again and again

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 the conscience

commitment to improve market access for Pakistan as a concrete measure to reinvigorate Pakistan’s economy. Allow me to conclude by recalling John F. Kennedy’s observation that the only reward for a politician is a good conscience. It may be true that not many other rewards should be expected for politicia

s. Once again, I appeal to the conscience and sensibility of the international community. In conclusion, I wish to do so by quoting President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural speech, which reflects what I have tried to convey today. He said that “if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cann

d 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 him and why. There was somebody called Lee Harvey Oswald, who was then killed by one Jack Ruby. Why did he kill h

ay a United States President, said shortly before he was assassinated, and this is on the record, in a speech before the United States Congress. John Kennedy spoke of a revolution in the South, saying that the principal cause was hunger. Only a few days later he was assassinated. John Kennedy was not a rev

ind of investment requires political will and decisions. And we must provide the framework that will direct resources towards those ends. When Robert Kennedy was running for president 40 years ago, he said in a speech that a country’s health cannot be measured simply by its economic output. That output, he

As I stand here today, I would so much like to hear once more the powerful voice of John F. Kennedy, telling the world, as he did in 1961, “To that world assembly of sovereign States, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instru

the United Nations to harness our collective resources in the interests of each and every member of mankind. To adapt the words of President John F. Kennedy, let us ask not what the United Nations can do for us, but what we can do for the United Nations. The United Nations needs reform. We all accept that

on for the people of East Timor, no prospect of lasting peace in Sierra Leone, no one to help rebuild Afghanistan. Forty years ago, President John F. Kennedy predicted a world in which 25 States would have nuclear weapons. But the Non- Proliferation Treaty, supported by international safeguards, has ensure

f uncertainty. The spectre of war once again casts its shadow across the continents. Forty years ago, when addressing the Assembly, President John F. Kennedy warned: Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. Of course, President Kennedy was addressing a different world from the one

tary- General. Let me also take this opportunity to express my sincere condolences to the families of the victims of yesterday’s tragedy near John F. Kennedy Airport. We are all going through days of sorrow and anger: sorrow for human suffering, for the loss of human lives and for loss of security; anger,

ithstanding, the Middle East is in grave danger of being on the wrong side of the digital divide. In his inaugural speech in 1961, the late President Kennedy invited his generation to join him in a struggle: “Now the trumpet summons us again — not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call

In 1995 Professor Paul Kennedy of Yale University, who headed a team of scholars retained by the United Nations Secretariat to study the future of the Organization, concluded that

ecisions and ensuring their implementation. I want to conclude my message today by recalling the words of a great American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Almost 40 years ago he said, “Now the trumpet summons us again ... to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle ... against the common enemies of

t-condemned imperial recipe has not met with any actions forceful enough to stop it. Its adoption gave rise to other aberrations, such as the D’Amato-Kennedy Act; and state and federal legislation of the same kind proliferates in that country. Similar measures already affect more than 35 sovereign States —

first leader to sign the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). I did so, with some pride, with this pen, for this pen is the very one that President Kennedy used to help bring the limited test-ban Treaty to life 33 years ago.

dence in the future. One year ago, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Andorra concluded his statement before this Assembly with some words by Robert Kennedy. Previously, my predecessor in the presidency of the Andorran Government borrowed from John Fitzgerald Kennedy the expression “Ich bin ein Berliner”

me just as prevalent during the fifty-first session. In this connection, I should like to recall the words of United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “When written in Chinese, the word crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” Since joining

have meant for my homeland. Another instance of unipolarity and of the attempt to dictate the conduct of sovereign States is the law known as D’Amato-Kennedy, which has also received universal repudiation. It repeats the philosophy of imposition and ratifies the tendency to apply United States law beyond i

onferred upon it by the international community — a mandate that remains as valid today as it was half a century ago. Back in 1961, President John F. Kennedy referred to the United Nations as “our last, best hope”. In the face of the threat of nuclear war and in the midst of various conflicts, those words

se values that will allow us all to face the challenges of the future — love, brotherhood and friendship. Let me end this statement by quoting Robert Kennedy: (spoke in English) “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or

endable work of the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ambassador Ayala Lasso. As president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy stood before the Berlin Wall and pronounced that famous phrase, "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner"). And for people everywhere in the world wh

ld with the hope of peace. We have begun to see the doomsday weapons of nuclear annihilation dismantled and destroyed. Thirty-two years ago President Kennedy warned this Assembly that humanity lived under a nuclear sword of Damocles that hung by the slenderest of threads. Now the United States is working w

. Since the time of Alexander of Macedonia, great empires have arisen only to collapse in a process that has been broadly described by Professor Paul Kennedy in his Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Every century brings its share of innovations and surprises. The twentieth century which is now drawing to

eace everywhere in the world. Mr. President, I bring you warmest greetings from the Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Right Honourable Dr. Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds, who had made all the arrangements to be here in this august body. You will appreciate that a tragic disaster has kept him at home.

This becomes a classic case of what the late President Kennedy referred to, with characteristic eloquence and perceptiveness, when he said: "Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution in

made by seizing such moments. For the first time, the United States and the Soviet Union seem ready to heed the concern expressed by John Fitzgerald Kennedy when he pointed out that if humanity did not put an end to war, war would put an end to humanity. The meetings that took place in Washington last wee

from threat or fear, the small nations as much as the great and powerful ones." We shall always bear in mind the essential idea expressed by John F. Kennedy before this Assembly in 1961: "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.* (A/PV.1013, para. 40)

our common humanity. And here I should like to present a greeting to the American people, to the people of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy and Luther King, and my tribute to its democratic conscience and the outstanding individuals here who understand Latin America and the Third World wi

d Nevis are proud of their emergence from colonialism into the brotherhood of the United Nations. I bring fond greetings from our Prime Minister, Dr. Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds, who has swiftly and brilliantly spearheaded our transition from colonial dependence to international independence. I should like a

As President John F. Kennedy of the United States once said, we must change the arms race into a peace race. Even the disarmed and the smallest nations are involved in this matte

Community was set forth a few days ago from this rostrum by our Acting President-in- Office, my "colleague, the Irish Foreign Minister, Mr. Michael O'Kennedy, and there is therefore no need for me to revert to this matter in detail. I want, however, to insist on something that is an absolute necessity, nam

er the ideas already developed before the Assembly on 25 September, on behalf of the nine States members of the European Economic Community, by Mr. O'Kennedy, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Ireland, who is President of the Community for this six-month period. Members will have noticed that the sta