UN High Level Report (pdf)
Historians may well look back on the first years of the twenty-first century as a decisive
moment in the human story. The different societies that make up the human family
are today interconnected as never before. They face threats that no nation can hope
to master by acting alone - and opportunities that can be much more hopefully
exploited if all nations work together.
The purpose of this report is to suggest how nations can work together to meet
this formidable challenge. It is the work of a panel of sixteen eminent and experienced
people, drawn from different parts of the world, whom I asked a year ago
to assess current threats to international peace and security; to evaluate how well
our existing policies and institutions have done in addressing those threats; and to
recommend ways of strengthening the United Nations to provide collective security
for the twenty-first century.
The Panel has met, and even surpassed, my expectations. This is a report of great
range and depth, which sets out a broad framework for collective security, and indeed
gives a broader meaning to that concept, appropriate for the new millennium. It suggests
not only ways to deal with particular threats, but also new ways of understanding
the connections between them, and explains what this implies in terms of shared
policies and institutions. In so doing, it also offers a unique opportunity to refashion
and renew the United Nations, which world leaders defined four years ago, in the
Millennium Declaration, as “the indispensable common house of the entire human
family”.
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