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Quotable quotes from General Debate of UN General Assembly on Sept. 30

Xinhua, October 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Following are quotable quotes from those who took the floor at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 30:

"There is no development without security. And there is no real security without justice and human rights, rule of law and good governance. Sustainable development rests upon economic, social and environmental pillars and the positive synergy between them." -- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, the president of Croatia.

"Development should result in the empowerment of women and youth and assure security for children. Frustration in youth usually leads to conflict. Nevertheless, youth is the driving force for sustainable development. Therefore, we should transform the youth to a totally skilled workforce to succeed in the 21st century knowledge-based world. It should be a lead component of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda." -- Maithripala Sirisena, the president of Sri Lanka.

"Millions of human beings are living in a starless night. Their pain, their despair and their anguish test the most intimate fibers of our own humanity. In the clutch of circumstance from which nobody escapes, let us demonstrate that the sun of a new era of our civilization is rising and not setting." -- Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, the president of Costa Rica.

"In millions and millions of schools all across the world, there are untold numbers of students studying history, learning about the events of our past. And in the pages of the books they use to study, history is compressed, reduced to its barest essentials. The enormity of an era is whittled down to mere paragraphs, with significant events carefully packaged into simple sentences. Nevertheless, within those pages are indeed the secrets of statecraft. Within those pages, we come to understand what our world once was, and the process by which it evolved to become the world that it is now. In those pages, we learn from the mistakes that were made." -- John Dramani Mahama, the president of Ghana.

"Today, the international community is facing a deteriorating global security environment, characterized by a rising number of civil wars, growing extremism and an increased number of humanitarian crises. A renewal focus on conflict prevention is needed." -- Rosen Plevneliev, the president of Bulgaria. Enditem