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Kofi
"One is tempted to say that we must now focus all our
energies on the struggle against terrorism, and on
directly related issues. Yet if we should do so, we will
be giving the terrorists a victory of a kind. Let us
remember that none of the issues that faced us on 10
September has become less urgent. The number of
people living on less than one dollar a day has not
decreased. The numbers dying of HIV/AIDS, malaria,
tuberculosis, and other preventable diseases have not
decreased. The factors that cause the desert to
advance, biodiversity to be lost, and the Earth's
atmosphere to warm have not decreased."
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the UN General
Assembly on November 10.
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/sgsm8019.doc.htm