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Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.
Antonio Guterres
Equality
Gender
Economies
Effect
Essential
Transformative
Communities
Fully
Societies
As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?
Antonio Guterres
Prosperity
Face
Community
Solidarity
Global
Source
Friction
Want
Social
Migration
Choice
Inhumanity
International
There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.
Antonio Guterres
Peace
Rights
Women
Challenge
Sustainable Development
Human Rights
Increasing
Recognition
Direct
Development
Participation
Major
Human
Sustainable
Sustaining
Against
Fulfilment
Barrier
Inclusion
Violence
Migratory birds connect people, ecosystems, and nations. They are symbols of peace and of an interconnected planet.
Antonio Guterres
Peace
People
Birds
Ecosystems
Nations
Interconnected
Planet
Connect
Symbols
United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'
Antonio Guterres
Dreams
Day
Birthday
People
United Nations
Our
Marks
Embodies
Hopes
Charter
Document
Nations
Landmark
Aspirations
United
Founding
Terrorism is a persistent and evolving global menace. No country is immune.
Antonio Guterres
Terrorism
Country
Evolving
No Country
Immune
Menace
Global
Persistent
It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind - people, sectors, regions - that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world.
Antonio Guterres
People
Frustration
World
Progress
Country
Sense
Increased
Sectors
Inside
Rust
True
Countries
Globalization
Inequality
Were
Left
Linked
Behind
Regions
Fantastic
Created
Level
Technological
Technological Progress
Belts
The United Nations must focus on delivery rather than process and on people rather than bureaucracy.
Antonio Guterres
People
Focus
United Nations
Must
Rather
Delivery
Than
Bureaucracy
Nations
Process
United
Authorities that erect major obstacles to migration - or place severe restrictions on migrants' work opportunities - inflict needless economic self-harm, as they impose barriers to having their labor needs met in an orderly, legal fashion. Worse still, they unintentionally encourage illegal migration.
Antonio Guterres
Work
Fashion
Needs
Legal
Opportunities
Met
Needless
Worse
Severe
Having
Restrictions
Economic
Major
Obstacles
Still
Impose
Erect
Encourage
Labor
Authorities
Inflict
Orderly
Place
Migration
Illegal
Barriers
Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.
Antonio Guterres
Life
Man
Peace
Woman
Suffering
People
Every
Give
Know
Because
Up
Child
Conflicts
Multiplying
Deserves
Every Man
There is an urgent need for disarmament of all kinds, but especially nuclear disarmament.
Antonio Guterres
Kinds
Disarmament
Urgent
Urgent Need
Nuclear
Need
The facts are clear. Our oceans are a mess.
Antonio Guterres
Our
Facts
Clear
Mess
Oceans
We have to transcend our differences to transform our future.
Antonio Guterres
Future
Differences
Our
Transcend
Transform
Preventing conflict means going back to basics - strengthening institutions and building resilient societies.
Antonio Guterres
Conflict
Building
Back
Preventing
Institutions
Going
Means
Societies
Resilient
Strengthening
Basics
We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.
Antonio Guterres
Justice
Respect
Peace
Rights
World
Values
Tolerance
Human Rights
Our
Defined
Enshrined
Solidarity
Charter
Human
Children
Want
Inherit
Nagasaki is not just an international city with a long and fascinating history. It is a global inspiration for all those who seek to create a safer and more secure world.
Antonio Guterres
History
World
Long
Those
Secure
City
Seek
More
Inspiration
Nagasaki
Global
Safer
Just
Create
Who
International
Fascinating
To give to those in need is a central pillar of Islam.
Antonio Guterres
Islam
Those
Give
Pillar
Central
Need
For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective consciousness. But like many of the myths associated with colonialism, the reality is very different.
Antonio Guterres
Reality
People
Collective
Long
Colonialism
Our
Located
Collective Consciousness
Mythical
Myths
Boundaries
Like
Very
Essence
Different
Place
Faraway
Many
Consciousness
Associated
Our own objective is to make Africa overcome its difficulties, to make Africa a continent of hope, to make Africa a continent of the future, to make Africa a pillar of the world in which we live - not seen as a problem but seen as an opportunity.
Antonio Guterres
Hope
Future
Problem
World
Overcome
Opportunity
Seen
Own
Live
Difficulties
Our
Objective
Make
Pillar
Continent
Africa
Which
We must make sure that when someone sees the Blue Flag, she or he can say, 'I am protected.'
Antonio Guterres
Say
Must
Someone
Sees
He
Protected
She
Make
Sure
Am
Flag
Blue
The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.
Antonio Guterres
Time
Conflict
Community
Difficult
Resources
Crises
TV
More
Preventing
Prevention
Seldom
Make
Priority
Cameras
Governments
Than
Managing
Them
Much
Organizations
Avoided
International
International Community
Stateless people are hidden. During the 2011 refugee crises, it was obvious that people were fleeing Somalia and Libya - there was a lot of international attention. Statelessness goes undetected because stateless people are in legal limbo and are afraid to show up.
Antonio Guterres
Legal
People
Hidden
Crises
Libya
Somalia
Attention
Obvious
Limbo
Because
Were
Lot
Up
Goes
Refugee
Afraid
Fleeing
Show
International
The governments of south Sudan must make sure that everybody will get a nationality - that nobody will become stateless because of this separation.
Antonio Guterres
Will
Become
Separation
Everybody
Must
Nobody
Make
Sure
Because
South
Governments
Get
Nationality
Sudan
Global terrorism threatens every region.
Antonio Guterres
Terrorism
Every
Threatens
Global
Global Terrorism
Region
As we face the headwinds of our troubled and turbulent times, let us always be inspired by the legacy of Kofi Annan - and guided by the knowledge that he will continue speaking to us, urging us on toward the goals to which he dedicated his life and truly moved our world.
Antonio Guterres
Life
Knowledge
World
Goals
Will
Face
Our
Guided
Our World
Inspired
Troubled
He
Toward
Always
Continue
His
Truly
Legacy
Times
Moved
Which
Turbulent
Urging
Us
Speaking
Dedicated
Let Us
Terrorist groups share an agenda of authoritarianism, misogyny, and intolerance. They are an affront to the common values encapsulated in the U.N. Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Antonio Guterres
Rights
Values
Human Rights
Intolerance
Charter
Share
Terrorist
Authoritarianism
Affront
Human
Common
Common Values
Declaration
Agenda
Groups
Universal
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