Verklaring van België tijdens het algemeen debat van de 81ste zitting van de Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties

Mr President, Mr Secretary-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Maurice Maeterlinck, born in Ghent and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 (nineteen eleven), wrote a strange, almost unsettling play entitled The Blind. Twelve people find themselves in a forest on an island. The guide who led them there is sitting among them. He is dead, but they do not yet know it. …