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What we have been trying very energetically during these two days to convey to the Iraqi side is that for them to have a better hearing...for their grievances, they would be very wise in...coming back to the situation before October 29.

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I hope the Iraqis understand that their isolation could be much worse than it is today.

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Who is right The answer, I believe, is up to us, ... The document should, as one speaker put it, be a beachhead of common ground from which we launch ourselves forward with urgency and common purpose.

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I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

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While no member state has got everything it argued for, the text before you is balanced, strong and workable. I also hope that, after reviewing the text as a whole and after assessing the larger issues at stake, you will be ready to move to a decision on this draft resolution as soon as possible, preferably before the end of next week.

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We are facing an escalation that could end in armed conflict, with terrible suffering as a result. That's why the world should be very careful at the moment.

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The General Assembly, by a two-thirds majority of members present and voting, could suspend the rights of membership of a council member who commits gross and systematic violations of human rights.

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This draft resolution represents a unique opportunity for a fresh start for human rights.

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While we will build on the positive achievements and best practices of the Commission, some of the elements we are considering will make the Human Rights Council a truly new and different body a fresh start.

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We have problems ahead of us. I will not hide the fact that the management issues are very difficult and we face a polarization of the membership.

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We have worked through the families, the travel agencies. We've sent ... up to a hundred people to go through the hospitals.

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I have seen the women in Somalia receive those water bottles where the alternative for them is to walk for two miles to get polluted water and even run the risk of being raped. These are the realities that we have to bring into the halls of the United Nations. So we may ask for a higher degree of ambition in the document. The realities are there, and I think we will have to deal with those realities.

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We will not achieve our collective goals for development, peace and security and human rights if we do not take concrete action to enhance women's participation in decision-making in governments, parliaments, international organizations, academic life and the private sector.

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International issues are national, and so many local issues - migration, communicable diseases, organized crime - end up touching everyone. At the same time there is such suspicion. It is quite a paradox.

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not only to recall the grievous crimes committed in human history but also to reaffirm our unfaltering resolve to prevent the recurrence of such crimes.

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