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Good evening.
I’m truly honored to be here with you tonight. And thank you to the
foundation for inviting me and thank you all for sharing in this moment.
We are here in the memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello and the 21 other men
and women, most of them UN workers, who died with him in the bombing of the UN
Headquarters in Baghdad, August 2003.
We remember all those who died, to acknowledge each valuable life cut
short, and the families who share, even today, in their sacrifice.
We also remember them for the power of the example they set: brave
individuals from 11 different countries, working to help the Iraqi people, at
the direction of the United Nations Security Council, and on behalf of all of
us.
This is sometimes forgotten: that in serving under the UN flag, they died
in our names, as our representatives.
And at their head, Sergio, was a man of extraordinary grace and ability, as
so many who knew him would testify.
A man who gave 30 years to the United Nations, rising from a field officer
to High Commissioner for Human Rights and Special Representative to Iraq.
From Bangladesh and Bosnia to South Sudan to East Timor, he spent the
majority of his career in the field, working alongside people forced from their
homes by war, and assisting them with his skill as a diplomat and a
negotiator.
Perhaps the greatest testament to his contribution is how much his advice
would be valued today.
As the Syrian conflict enters its seventh year, as we live through the
gravest refugee crisis since the founding of the United Nations, as 20 million
people are on the brink of death from starvation in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan
and southeast Nigeria, I cannot imagine that there is anyone in the leadership
of the United Nations who would not welcome the opportunity to consult Sergio,
or to send him into the field once more. He is truly missed.
It is humbling for me to speak tonight in the presence of members of
Sergio’s family and his former colleagues.
I never knew Sergio, but I have stood before the plaque in the place where
he died.
I felt profound sadness at the fact that the conflict in Iraq – the source
of so much Iraqi suffering to this day – had claimed the lives of men and women
whose only intention was to try to improve a desperate situation.
But I also saw clearly the value and nobility of a life spent in service to
others.
Sergio was a man who never turned down an assignment, no matter how
difficult and dangerous – or as others have put it, who “handled one impossible
task after another”.
He was a man, to borrow the words of Thomas Paine, whose country was the
world, whose religion was to do good.
He will always remain a hero and inspiration to all who follow in his
footsteps.
The UN’s work did not end there in the rubble of Canal House 14 years
ago.
Hundreds of UN staff have served, and continue to, serve in Iraq, as they
do from Afghanistan to Somalia, because the task of building peace and security
can never be abandoned, no matter how bleak the situation.
My thoughts on Sergio’s life and legacy derive from my 16 years with UNHCR,
the Agency he spent so much of his career serving and representing.
But I also speak as a citizen for my country – the United States.
I believe all of us who work with the UN preserve this duality. The United
Nations is not a country, it is a place where we come together as nations and
people to try to resolve our differences and to unite in common action.
As a citizen, I find myself looking out on a global environment that seems
more troubling and uncertain than at any time in my lifetime. And I imagine many
of you feel the same.
We are grappling with a level of conflict and insecurity that seems to
exceed our will and capabilities: with more refugees than ever before, with new
wars erupting on top of existing conflicts, some already lasting decades.
We see a rising tide of nationalism, masquerading as patriotism, and the
re-emergence of policies encouraging fear and hatred of others.
We see some politicians elected partly on the basis of dismissing
international institutions and agreements, as if our countries have not
benefited from cooperation, but actually been harmed by it.
We hear some leaders talking as if some of our proudest achievements are in
fact our biggest liabilities – whether it is the tradition of successfully
integrating refugees into our societies, or the institutions and treaties we
have built rooted in law and human rights.
We see nations that played a role – a proud role in the founding of the
International Criminal Court withdrawing from it, on the one hand; and on the
other, we see arrest warrants for alleged war crimes issued but not implemented,
and other crimes ignored altogether.
We see a country like South Sudan ushered by the international community
into independence, and then largely abandoned – not by the UN agencies and NGOs
– but effectively abandoned, without the massive support they need to make a
success of sovereignty.
And we see resolutions and laws on the protection of civilians and the use
of chemical weapons, for instance, flouted repeatedly, and in some cases, under
the cover of Security Council vetoes, as in Syria.
Many of these things are not new – but taken together – and in the absence
of strong international leadership, they are deeply worrying.
When we consider this, all of this and more, as citizens, what is our
answer?
Do we, as some would encourage us to think, turn our backs on the world,
and hope that the storm would pass?
Or do we strengthen our commitment to diplomacy, and to the United
Nations?
I strongly believe there is only one choice, demanded by reason as well as
by conscience, which is the hard work of diplomacy and negotiation and reform of
the UN.
This is not to say that in any way this is an easy road. And there are
reasons for people to feel insecure today.
The level of conflict and lack of solutions combined with the fear of
terrorism; the reality that globalization has bought vast benefits to some and
worsened the lot for others; the sense of disconnect between citizens and
governments, or in some countries, the lack of governance; the overall feeling
that for all our gains in technology and connectedness, the less we are in
control of forces shaping our lives – all these factors and more have
contributed to a sense of a world out of balance, and there are no easy
answers.
And despite the millions of people who have lifted themselves out of
poverty in our lifetime, the difference between the lives of those of us born in
wealthy, democratic societies and those born into the slums and refugee camps in
the world is a profound injustice. We see it and we know it’s wrong, at a simple
human level, that inequality is contributing to instability, conflict and
migration as well as to the sense that the international system serves the few
at the expense of the many.
But again, what, what is our answer, as citizens?
Do we withdraw from the world where before we felt a responsibility to be
part of the solutions?
I am a proud American, and I am an internationalist.
I believe anyone committed to human rights is.
It means seeing the world with a sense of fairness and humility, and
recognizing our own humanity in the struggles of others.
It stems from a love of one’s country, but not at the expense of others –
from patriotism, but not from narrow nationalism.
It includes the view that success isn’t being greater than others, but
finding your place in a world where others succeed, too.
And that a strong nation, like a strong person, helps others to rise up and
be independent.
It is the spirit that made possible the creation of the UN, out of the
rubble and ruin and 60 million dead of World War Two; so that even before the
task of defeating Nazism was complete, that generation of wartime leaders was
forging the UN.
If governments and leaders are not keeping the flame of internationalism
alive than its citizens, we must.
The challenge is how to restore that sense of balance and hopefulness in
our countries, while not sacrificing all we have learnt about the value and
necessity of internationalism.
Because a world in which we turn our back on our global responsibilities
will be a world that produces greater insecurity, violence and danger for us and
for our children.
This is not a clash between idealism and realism.
It is the recognition that there is no shortcut to peace and security, no
substitute for the long, painstaking effort to end conflicts, expand human
rights and strengthen the rule of law.
We have to challenge the idea that the strongest leaders are those willing
to dismiss human rights on the grounds of national interests. The strongest
leaders are those who are capable of doing both.
Having strong values and the will to act upon them doesn’t weaken our
borders or our militaries – it is their essential foundation.
And none of this is to say that the UN is perfect. Because of course, we
know it is not.
I have never met a field officer who has not railed against the
shortcomings, as I imagine Sergio did in his darkest moments.
And he, like all of us, wanted a UN that was more decisive, less
bureaucratic, and that lived up to its standards. But he never said it was
pointless. And he never threw in the towel.
The UN is an imperfect organization because we are imperfect. It is not
separate from us.
Our decisions, particularly those made by the Security Council, have played
a part in creating the landscape that we are dealing with today.
We should always remember why the UN was formed, and what it is for, and
take that responsibility very seriously.
We have to recognize the damage we do when we undermine the UN or use it
selectively – or not at all – or when we rely on aid to do the job of diplomacy,
or give the UN impossible tasks and then underfund it.
For example, today, there is not a single humanitarian appeal anywhere in
the world that is funded even by half of what is required. In fact, worse than
that. Appeals for countries on the brink of famine today are 17%, 7%, and 5%
funded, for example.
And of course, emergency aid is not the long-term answer.
No one prefers that kind of aid. Not citizens of donor countries. Not
governments. Not refugees. They do not want to be dependent.
It would be far better to be able to invest all of our funds in
infrastructure and schools and trade and enterprises.
But let’s be clear, emergency aid has to continue because many states
cannot or will not protect the rights of citizens around the world.
It is what we spend in countries where we have no diplomacy or our
diplomacy is not working.
And until we do better at preventing and reducing conflict, we are doomed
to be in a cycle of having to help feed or shelter people when societies
collapse.
As another legendary UN leader, who was also killed in the line of duty,
Dag Hammerskold, said “Everything will be all right – you know when? When
people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso
abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves”.
The UN can only change if governments change their policies. And if we as
citizens ask governments to do that.
It is moving, if you think about it: We are the future generations
envisioned in the UN Charter.
When our grandparents resolved to “spare future generations the scourge of
war”, as written, they were thinking of us.
But as well as dreaming for our safety, they also left us a
responsibility.
President Roosevelt, addressing the US Congress in January, 1945, six
months before the end of Second World War, said this: “In the field of foreign
policy, we promise to stand together with the United Nations not for the war
alone, but for the victory for which the war was fought”.
And he went on: “The firm foundation can be built and will be built. But
the continuance and assurance of a living peace, in the long run, must be the
work of the people themselves.”
So today, we have to ask ourselves if we are living up to that mission.
They gave us the start. What have we done with it?
It is clear to me that we have made huge strides. But our agreements and
institutions are only as strong as our will to uphold them.
If we do not, for whatever reason, we bequeath a darker, more unstable
world to all of those who come after us. It is not for this that previous
generations shed blood and worked so hard on behalf of all of us.
The memory of those who came before us holds us true to our ideals.
Resting unchanged in time, they remind us who we are and what we stand
for.
They give us hope to stay in the fight, as Sergio did, until his last
breath.
Fourteen years since his death, there is a stronger need than ever before
for us to stay true to the ideals and purposes of the United Nations.
That is what I hope his memory holds for us to today.
We can’t all be Sergios. But I hope all of us can determine that we shall
be a generation that renews its commitment to “unite our strength to maintain
international peace and security”, and “to promote social progress and better
standards of life in larger freedom.”
But in the final analysis, even we do not, even if that level of vision
eludes us and we continue to simply manage rather than overcome our generation’s
challenges, we just have to keep working determinedly, patiently.
And you can be certain, that as you do, that you follow the example of one
of the UN’s finest sons: and that to do even a little of his good, to apply
ourselves to the work he left unfinished, in whatever way we can, is a worthy
task for all of us.
Thank you.
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