联合国秘书长潘基文在获选连任联合国秘书长大会上的就职演说(英汉对照) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moo

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Remarks to the General Assembly after Being Elected

for a Second Term

潘基文在获选连任联合国秘书长大会上的就职演说

New York, 21 June 2011

2011年6月21日纽约，联合国大会

President of the General Assembly,

Presidents of the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea,

Vice Presidents of the General Assembly,

Representatives of the Five Regional Groups,

Permanent Representative of the United States,

Excellencies,

Distinguished guests,

Ladies and gentlemen,

联合国大会主席，

安理会、经济及社会理事会、托管理事会各位主席，

大韩民国外交部长，

联合国大会各位副主席，

五大区域组织的代表，

美国常驻联合国代表，

诸位代表，嘉宾，

女士们，先生们，

With your decision this afternoon —with your warm words —you do me a very great honour, beyond expression. Standing in this place, mindful of the immense legacy of my predecessors, I am humbled by your trust and enlarged by our sense of common purpose.

今天下午你们做出的决定，以及给我的溢美言辞，令我感到无尚的荣耀，难以言表。站在这里，回想起历届秘书长做出的贡献，我对大家给予我的信任深感谦卑，更对我们的共同目标而信心倍增。

This solemn occasion is special in another respect. On being sworn in, a few moments ago, I placed my hand on the United Nations Charter —not a copy, but the original signed in San Francisco. Our Founding Fathers deemed this document so precious that it was flown back to Washington, strapped to its own parachute. No such consideration was given to the poor diplomat accompanying it; he had to take his chances. We thank the United States National Archives for their generosity in lending it today, and for their care in preserving it.

今天这一庄严的时刻尤为特殊，在刚刚进行的宣誓仪式中，我将手放在了联合国宪章之上——不是副本，而是当年各国在旧金山签署的原件。我们当年的创立者对这份文件无比珍视，专门用飞机将它送回华盛顿，仅有的降落伞也系在了文件上，甚至没有留给运送它的外

交官。我们感谢美国国家档案馆今天再次把它带到联合国，也感谢他们对这份原件长期以来的精心保护。

The Charter of the United Nations is the animating spirit and soul of our great institution. For 65 years, this great Organization has carried the flame of human aspiration —“We the peoples”. From the last of the great world wars, through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid, we have fed the hungry, delivered comfort to the sick and suffering, brought peace to those afflicted by war. This great Organization, dedicated to human progress —the United Nations.

联合国宪章是我们这个伟大机构的精神象征。65年来，这个伟大的组织一直维系着人类理想的火焰——“我们即联合国人民”。从世界大战之末，到柏林墙的倒塌，再到种族隔离政策的结束，我们一直致力于消除贫穷与饥饿，战胜疾病与苦难，维护世界稳定与和平。这个伟大的组织，致力于人类的进步与发展，这就是联合国。

We began our work together, four and a half years ago, with a call for a “new multilateralism” —a new spirit of collective action. We saw, in our daily work, how all the world‟s people look more and more to the United Nations. We knew then — and more so now — that we live in an era of integration and interconnection, a new era where no country can solve all challenges on its own and where every country should be part of the solution. That is the reality of the modern world. We can struggle with it, or we can lead.

四年半前，我们秉持“新多边主义”的精神，力求在国际事务上采取协同一致的行动。从我们的日常工作中，我们能感受到世界人民对联合国越来越多的期待与关注，从过去到现在，我们愈加意识到世界各国越来越相互融合、密不可分，每一个国家都无法独立应对全部挑战，每一个国家都需要为解决问题做出贡献。这就是当今世界面对的现实问题，我们或者纠缠其中，或者发挥起领导作用。

The role of the United Nations is to lead. Each of us here today shares that heavy responsibility. It is why the United Nations matters in a different and deeper way than ever before. To lead, we must deliver results. Mere statistics will not do. We need results that people can see and touch, results that change lives — make a difference.

联合国扮演的角色就是领导。今天在座的各位都肩负这一重要的责任。正是因为如此，联合国比以往任何时候都更加重要，其影响力也有别于往昔。要领导，就要取得成果。单纯的统计数据是不够的；我们需要看得见、摸得着的成果，需要能改变人们生活、不同凡响的成果。

Working together, with goodwill and mutual trust, we have laid a firm foundation for the future. When we began, climate change was an invisible issue. Today, we have placed it squarely on the global agenda. When we began to work together, nuclear disarmament was frozen in time. Today, we see progress. We have advanced on global health, sustainable development and education. We are on track to eliminate deaths from malaria. With a final push, we can eradicate polio, just as we did smallpox long ago. We have shielded the poor and