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Vladimir Petrovsky Archive
LIBRARY OF STATEMENTS & DOCUMENTS
This comprehensive archive covers the time of Mr. Petrovsky's stay in Geneva (1993-2002) as United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva as well as Secretary-General of the Conference of Disarmament.
For the time before 1992 please refer to the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation (http://government.ru/en/department/92/events/) and for the activities of Mr. Petrovsky's NGO Comprehenisve Dialogue Among Civilizations (CDAC) after 2002, please refer to the CDAC Website https://www.comprehensivedialogue.org/.
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ARCHIVE OF SPEECHES
DISARMAMENT
ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS
Background Papers on the Conference of Disarmament
Rules of Procedure, Machinery and Mechanisms, Limits and Prospects
The time
has come...
...to develop a planetary way of thinking which subsumes the definition of national interest within the global context.
The logic of a planetary way of thinking brings to the foreground the task of providing not a balance of power, but a qualitatively new balance: the balance of interests of all the countries of our planet.
Vladimir Petrovsky
Here are various documents that show different viewpoints in relation to global governance.
Vladimir Petrovsky was Director-General of the Palais des Nations from 1993 to 2002. He was an effective and powerful advocate of Geneva's role in the United Nations constellation, a friend of Switzerland and an outstanding diplomat who influenced the diplomatic history of the last quarter of the 20th century.
With Flavio Cotti, Federal Councillor and former President of Switzerland, in March 1996.