We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.
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- Attributed to
- Kofi Annan
- Source
- Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the New Year, 2004. un.org
- Culture / tradition
- Ghanaian
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Photo: Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0 · source · Portrait: US Mission in Geneva (Public domain)
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