UN Secretary General's Speech to UN General Assembly re: the September 11th Attacks (9/24)
Excerpts selected by Nathaniel Hurd

...It was not only an attack on our innocent fellow citizens -– well over 60 Member States are affected, including, I am sad to say, my own country -– but an attack on our shared values.. It struck at everything this Organization stands for:  peace, freedom, tolerance, human rights, and the very idea of a united human family...  It struck at all our efforts to create a true international society, based on the rule of law... Let us respond by reaffirming, with all our strength, our common humanity and the values that we share.  We shall not allow them to be overthrown... Finally, the attack of 11 September was an attack on the rule of law -- that is, on the very principle that enables nations and individuals to live together in peace, by following agreed rules and settling their disputes through agreed procedures... So let us respond by reaffirming the rule of law, on the international as well as the national levels.

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