William Shakespeare

he horrendous acts of terrorism recently committed in Kenya. I reaffirm yet again our solidarity with the Government and the people of Kenya. William Shakespeare cautioned that what is past, is prologue. Similarly, Mr. President, your invitation to consider the future of the international development agenda re

act resolutely to save our planet, and now is the time. We cannot afford to squander any more opportunities, for tomorrow might be too late. William Shakespeare instructs us, in his famous work, Julius Caesar, that: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitte

sible when we speak as influential world leaders. With the growth and development of technology, all of the world is a stage in a manner that William Shakespeare never foresaw. It therefore behoves us all to constantly and continuously mind our exits and our entrances and the many parts that we play on the glo

. He sees everything, every grain of sand, every sparrow that falls. “There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow” Hamlet tells Laertes in Shakespeare's great play. But alongside this Christian understanding of God's providence is another figure, the pagan figure of Fortuna, who holds her wheel on w

. These violent encounters formed the world even as they brought death and destruction. They also sparked our imaginations. The Globe was the name of Shakespeare's playhouse in sixteenth-century London, a joke he liked to work into many of his plays. I like to think of the United Nations as the new Globe, a th

“To be or not to be.” Never before has Shakespeare?s famous dilemma been so valid. Half the world is shuddering with the collapse of the stock exchanges, from Tokyo to Rio, from Moscow to Buenos Aires

phenomenon. The point is that, both as Latin Americans and as a member State of the international community, we must once again face this situation. Shakespeare, who is often quoted in connection with major tragedies, said that fate dealt the cards but we were the players.

nations need to cooperate and be part of the solution to all the world’s woes. For we are all in this together, and there are no others to blame. As Shakespeare admonished, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings“ (Julius Caesar, Act I, scene 2).

f Central America shared by the rest of the world. Our decision is neither utopian nor romantic, although we are such stuff as dreams are made on, as Shakespeare says. We are not talking here of utopias or romanticism. Our decision is simply an act of maturity, a realistic recognition of the needs created by o

ffective and credible programme for reform. It seems to us self-evident that, after 50 years, some revision and redesign is necessary. We think, with Shakespeare, “When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then we must rate the cost of the er

is on the verge of bankruptcy. At this critical point in the United Nations history, we need political will, not more words. “Words pay no debts”, as Shakespeare wrote. We need new ideas, not recycled platitudes. And, above all, Members must pay their dues, on time, and in full. We do stand here at a crossroad

t few years there has been prodigious change. This has been of such a radical nature that we could, like Hamlet, say that "The time is out of joint" (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, scene v). The process has been so fascinating that some have deluded themselves with the fantasy that the future is already under con

those circumstances UNPROFOR would have to withdraw. But it would not be a good policy. Indeed, it would be a policy of despair, a policy that, as in Shakespeare’s King Lear, "Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, "... "That things might change or cease". (King Lear, Act III, scene i, l. 5) A real solutio

We cannot afford to defer this to another time. To paraphrase the immortal William Shakespeare, there is a tide flowing in the direction of independence) if missed, it will cause misery in the lives of a gallant and determined people. Now is th

Continuing that nautical metaphor, permit me to quote the words of the immortal William Shakespeare: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; emitted, all of the voyage of their life Is bound in shallow

aertes: "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend. And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." (Hamlet, 1: iii) Shakespeare's admonition may have its relevance for an adolescent who is about to set out on his own, but it has no appeal for a young nation that must grow, mus

Thus, it is a matter that we must help to resolve. We can begin by convening the much discussed international conference on the Middle East. William Shakespeare once aptly stated that the past is the prologue. We believe that solutions to many of the items on the agenda of the United Nations require that we l

participate. We believe that such a conference without the full participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization would be like trying to stage Shakespeare's Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. My Government is seriously concerned at the continuing war between the two sister countries, Iran and Iraq. W

conduct of some Member States, even in the precincts of this very Hal!, drive us, in small countries, to despair and to cry out with Mark Anthony, of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason." 18. Time and again, resolutions passed and ratified b

of human existence: knowledge. The Code of Ham¬murabi, the Bible, the Analects of Confucius, the teachings of the Buddha, the Koran, the insights of Shakespeare, the creed of Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King—all these were arrangements of words. 201. Is it not profoundly revealing that the first victims o

In the social field, questions covering Shakespeare's seven ages of man from childhood, youth and adulthood to old age are being discussed in the United Nations. In that regard at least we can discern

As William Shakespeare said in Act I, scene 2, of Julius Caesar: "Men at some time are masters of their fate: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves,

for South Africa, then his shuttle efforts in southern Africa will be preserved in the archives of American history under the label of one of William Shakespeare's classics, "Much Ado About Nothing". Peripheral and cosmetic concessions are not what the people of South Africa want. They want to lead a full life

. After all, problems will continue to exist and even multiply so long as this world is not Utopia. I can do no better than end with a quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bou

world piracy in the air, bomb outrages, arson, kidnapping and other acts of reckless cruelty. The world is in danger of reaching that condition which Shakespeare described: Blood and destruction shall be so in use And dreadful objects so familiar That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quar

e thick fog of blind fear that gripped the world following the explosion of the first atomic bomb. Therefore, my delegation, in unashamed reversal of Shakespeare’s famous line, “I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”, must say that we come to praise the United Nations, not to bury it. For us the function of

nterest the application of resolution 2359 B (XXII) of 19 December 1967 regarding this important problem. The language of Molière and the language of Shakespeare should, in our view, enjoy equal status as working tools essential for better mutual understanding; we therefore take great pleasure in the Secretari

s discussed. The British statesman, commenting on the role of the small nations which would subsequently be invited to join the United Nations quoted Shakespeare and said: “The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby”. 134. Twenty-five years have passed since that meeting,

lear his view that this has not been a good year for the United Nations; and we agree with that assessment. The fault — to paraphrase the great bard, Shakespeare — lies not in the Organization itself, but in ourselves, its Members; and it is to our own policies that we must ail look if we desire a better futur

and reached soon. If the present momentum is lost so, I fear, will be our opportunity to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. We must, in the words of Shakespeare, take the tide when it is at the flood, or lose in our ventures. 79. At the same time my delegation is aware of and sympathetic to the difficulties t

tif" which stresses that the current runaway arms race is folly and madness, and yet the solution appears to evade these two great countries. 122. In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, faced with a problem which was beyond him, lapsed, as you will recall, into madness, and in this condition found a solution indeed, b

st mankind. 39. From time to time unexpected signs appear. They are probably irrational — "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio...", as Shakespeare said — but who knows whether those signs may not have some meaning which is beyond our powers of observation?

The Melun episode has also proved to be a modern version of the Merchant of Venice where the genius of Shakespeare has made a comedy out of a tragedy and has made a tragedy out of a comedy. The "pourparlers" were again made by France "les sales pourparlers". Thus,