Pope warns against undermining U.N.
Philip Pullella
Reuters
April 18, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Countries that act unilaterally on the world stage undermine the authority of the United Nations and weaken the broad consensus needed to confront global problems, Pope Benedict said on Friday.
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In a major speech to the U.N. General Assembly, the pope also said the international community sometimes had the duty to intervene when a country could not protect its own people from “grave and sustained violations of human rights.”
The pope, who arrived from Washington on the second leg of a six-day U.S. trip, became only the third pontiff in history to address the General Assembly.
Speaking in French and English from the Assembly’s green marble podium, he gave a wide-ranging address on issues such as globalization, human rights and the environment.
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