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12-11-2006, 02:42 PM
In his last address on American soil before his tenure as United Nations Secretary-General ends on December 31st of this year, Kofi Annan offers a stern criticism of President George W. Bush and the current approach to US foreign policy. The remarks were provided to RAW STORY prior to their delivery from the President Harry S. Truman Library in Missouri today.
In the speech, Annan warns that "no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves." He describes it as important that "The US has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level."
In the address's conclusion, he offers constructive criticism of the current American approach, noting that "More than ever today Americans, like the rest of humanity, need a functionning global system through which the world's peoples can face global challenges together. And in order to function, the system still cries out for far-sighted American leadership, in the Truman tradition."
The video of the address, which is being delivered at this time, can be accessed at the Truman Library's website. The full text of the speech is offered below.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Kofi_Annan__1211.html
In the speech, Annan warns that "no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves." He describes it as important that "The US has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level."
In the address's conclusion, he offers constructive criticism of the current American approach, noting that "More than ever today Americans, like the rest of humanity, need a functionning global system through which the world's peoples can face global challenges together. And in order to function, the system still cries out for far-sighted American leadership, in the Truman tradition."
The video of the address, which is being delivered at this time, can be accessed at the Truman Library's website. The full text of the speech is offered below.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Kofi_Annan__1211.html