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24 juin 2024
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Pierre-Yves Cadalen et al., « Narrating the common good: Stories about and around the United Nations », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.5040/9781350445215.ch-11
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Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations Organization’s second secretary-general, was weary of great power politics. He welcomed decolonization and believed that the UN’s General Assembly with its growing number of newly independent states should have a bigger say in international governance. The Swedish diplomat was markedly at odds with Charles de Gaulle who firmly believed in the right of a few powerful nations to decide on war and peace – the five Second World War victors who were, and still are, sitting on the Security Council. Yet the French president did share with Hammarskjöld the idea that the world needed a place like the UN where ‘all nations could meet on an equal footing and discuss together the matters of the universe’.