When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much … - Kofi Annan

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Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

Kofi Annan

When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted?. . . And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?

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