Victor Hugo

e been no progress, forgetting that no one can love Mali more than the Malians themselves. Her singular position, adverse to us, hardly surprises us. Victor Hugo in “Claude Gueux” classified the human race into two categories: “There are men who are metal, and there are men who are lodestones.” The Minister in

novation and intelligence are more necessary than ever. We need multilateralism that is bold, brave and enterprising. Back in the nineteenth century, Victor Hugo already understood that “Nature speaks and humankind does not listen”. Our Secretary-General just a few days ago, in words as apt as urgent, perfectl

us the mandate of building a better world where no one will be left alone, where our children will finally be able to grow up in peace. The words of Victor Hugo come to mind, pronounced at the Peace Congress in 1847: “The day will come when there will be no battlefields other than markets open to trade and mi

lti-ethnic character, and it is therefore taking important initiatives for the advancement of indigenous peoples. The Vice-President of the Republic, Victor Hugo Cárdenas, is a distinguished representative of Bolivia’s Aymará people. In the international arena, we are actively pursuing peaceful coexistence amo

For the first time in 500 years, a man has emerged from an indigenous ethnic group to become Acting President of our country. To the Bolivian people Victor Hugo Cárdenas is not only an Aimara Indian, a person from the countryside, but a great professional and outstanding intellectual. He typifies our desire t

nprotected adolescents in the third world are the present-day version of the poverty-stricken youth we encounter in the most biting pages of Dickens, Victor Hugo or Dostoevski? There is an urgent need to create conditions through which the developing countries can return to their natural status as recipients o

ld could be, and that image can give hope to millions of people on this planet. For our role has not changed. The task is sti!! to put an end to what Victor Hugo called "the world's great insomnia". And, as Leon Blum added, "Men want to be able to sleep again. They want to rest their heads peacefully on their

t an independent Algeria was the best guarantee of sound and durable relations between the two countries; The France of Descartes, Diderot, Rousseau, Victor Hugo and others, the France of the French Revolution, has won an undisputed victory over the false and odious image which an insignificant minority of Fre