Once again I shall rely on the kindness of those who interpret our speeches, since I am yet again putting them to the test of working without a written text.
I shall switch between repetition and familiar issues, between deception and truth.
First, repetition. As last year, the President of the De…
I ask the interpreters to forgive me for not having submitted a text. I did not do so because I would like to depart from the beaten path.
What can one recommend to the United Nations to make its peacekeeping work more effective? I should like to link that question to the ideas that a great mind of…
I find myself in a position that reminds me of the teachings of the “Spanish Machiavelli”, Baltazar Gracián y Morales, about what one should be and what one should do, in his book The Courtier’s Oracle. I appear here as a courtier, trying to walk on eggs without crushing them, and obliged to reassur…
The convening in the splendid metropolis of New York of this last General Assembly session of the millennium affords me the happy opportunity, on behalf of the people, the Government of Public Salvation and the head of State, His Excellency President Laurent-Désiré Kabila, of the Democratic Republic…
