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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 April 2005-UN: Secretary-General, in New Delhi lecture, says UN reform aims to enhance freedom through pursuit of development, security, human rights goals(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's public lecture at the India International Centre, entitled "In Larger Freedom -- the changing role of the United Nations", in New Delhi, 28 April:
Thank you, Mr. Sorabjee, [President of the IIC and Former Attorney-General of India] for those very warm and kind remarks and introduction. I wish I can take you with me to New York to explain the importance of the report, and the reform we are trying to push, to some of my friends there.
It is indeed a great pleasure for me to be back in India.
I've had very useful discussions and very friendly discussions with the President, the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, and I saw the party leaders, Mr. [L.K.] Advani, Mrs. [Sonia] Gandhi. And I've also had a chance to see and meet some of your vibrant civil society members. I think this is one of the remarkable developments in India -- the vibrancy of your society and of the civil society.
Over the decades, India has made an enormous contribution to the United Nations, through the efforts of its Government, and the work of Indian scholars, soldiers and international civil servants, several of them are in this room -- Virendra Dayal and Chinmaya Gharekhan. India's has been one of the most eloquent voices helping the United Nations to shape its agenda on behalf of the developing world. And the experience and professionalism of your armed forces has proved invaluable, time and again, in UN peacekeeping operations -- in which over a hundred Indian soldiers have given their lives.
So it was natural, when 18 months ago I asked a group of international experts to make recommendations for strengthening our system of collective security and adapting it to the threats and challenges of the twenty-first century, that I asked one of your citizens, the former commander of...
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