good afternoon all
You might be wondering how a
girl from veghel
at the United Nations in New York
gets
some of you might know me as
the tiny girl who everyone
ears of head chattered as holding bowl
talk or teenager with the sideline
at the petrol station in echo, or if the
neighbor that likes going on holiday
the travel destination without the
liked most that trip destination
is still my favorite trip I
I made a certain sense of my work
After a short stop and I especially rice
to argentine, and then to
New York to Thailand and then to New
york and I do not know where the future me
yet will bring
but I do know that I feel at home
I’m never here in london
lose and it is thanks to this safe
home base
I feel at home my world
I’ve never been known for a
patience can confirm my parents
it is a prerequisite for the
operate in an administrative
organization
diplomatic’m also not real yet
I stand before you as a diplomat working
the political department of the
Dutch Mission to the United
nations
I am a diplomat because I have no peace
have war and diplomacy
about negotiations
communication and the promotion of
interests and diplomacy to work,
you are in touch with the people who
it’s alright
it might seem a bit far from their bed
but does it work for me at the
United Nations
also a link with Brabant
there is anything said about the
United Nations
especially when things go wrong sounds hard
criticism from around the world
You might also be thinking if the newspaper
world why read anywhere
but we should not forget to
two World Wars and shortly after the cold
war that, while it was
sense of international solidarity
had disappeared although there was
no third world war but there were
or wars in the Third World
and those wars that touches us most
none were far from good
so we did not bother but
niner since life is the feeling gebruk
of belonging back again
his home and abroad
inextricably connected
that if we do not know here in london
other
because the territory of Brabant finish
not in the Netherlands
we live finally in North Brabant
but it is just south of Brabant
in Belgium
we not only can the outside world
exclude that we see also a
lot of other things
think of the refugee crisis in the
mh17 fly grams or terrorist
attacks
The problems that you are not in your
To resolve one without
International cooperation is the
not
So when people ask me do you believe in
The vm your faith in the United Nations
you believe in the United Nations as
people ask me do you believe in the UN than
I say it’s not a matter of faith
It’s a tough business
interests for a country like
The Netherlands
and if we today lift the UN
tomorrow we would have to weather
set up and I can explain it in a
long story with many figures boring
abbreviations but I’d rather do it
otherwise, by means of a comparison
you could unitednations
like a beautiful historic
building with the Association of
owners of a beautiful historic
apartment building
the owners association, the VVD
193 members live in the flat neat tidy
Residents quiet residents who neatly
worn but also
troublemakers and has bonje
between the neighbors chimes nuisance and
lying around dirty and fought
between the neighbors over the exact division
between the little gardens
and the neighbors we go together to the
fist and tensions run high
and there are rumors that six high
the existence of domestic violence and
victims flights to three high
and local residents to talk about it
What takes it indoors
all off and the neighbors go with it
interfere
How do you determine in which flat I want
not really live but now lives in the
flat in the world of 193 countries
world is also characterized by
climate challenge
the war on poverty
terrorist attacks all
phenomena that all of us can
affect us here in Brabant and
Fortunately than VVD
you drag yourself every month to the
meetings to
sighing and groaning but you will be
because it is quite nice that he has
and that the house rules are who you are
does that apply to everyone
and also maintains together
and it will never be ideal rules
will always be violated but
is fine that they are there it is not
easy to 193 parties agree
to complex problems but
it is the only way
as VVD speaks about peace and war
not all countries are equally
join in the conversation
then just fifteen residents
which take part in the so-called safety
going and five of those residents have
in the construction of the flat in 1945
penthouse apartment where she got
permanently live and they also have the
veto given that they unilaterally
decisions can block and
is sometimes said
they may unilaterally
decisions blocking and we call
the aspect of the skewed ratios
sommar more equal than others some
are more equal than others
it is the harsh reality but we need
it provisionally Opt
the brush is said that the current
generational conflicts
occurs more within countries than between
countries simply going to say more
domestic violence than disputes between neighbors
but is no conflict in the world
which has no effect on play
if the neighbor the crane
Bath left open then the
water by itself through the ceiling at the
downstairs neighbors inside
unrest in one country feel
eventually in another country
I keep myself in New York working on
domestic violence case with
spillover effect
The civil war in Syria
The death toll has been estimated at
more than 400,000 13 million people
depending on livestock and food, and
medicines
In addition, there are six million people
homes to have on flight
Looking went to security and
rattling the doors of the neighbors or
further from home
war in Syria lasting more
6 years and the international
community failed
I work in New York for more than three
year the crisis and I am
part of that failing
world community and it is difficult for
work for peace and security can
be a slow and frustrating process
the impatient girl from that is
still in my so I find that very
difficult
and Netherlands is a small country and we
try to do everything at
to contribute to the many ways
ending the war but it will
Not surprisingly no easy
job is
let’s face also geopolitical
giants in this world have no
solution to the conflict
but we can not stand still, we are
can not do anything, we need something
doing so is in the interest of
Netherlands and in such a conflict is
important to the warring factions
to not only brings together black
likeminded
but also the dissenters the
Parties angled in such a conflict
standing together
for peace make do with
enemy with your friends
a concrete example of what I’m New
York went with a colleague
we organized a meeting where we
invited a group of Syrian women
a very diverse group
perhaps you now wonders why
women because women like no other
know what the tool of conflict
they are able sometimes proved more than
men to prevent conflicts or she
to solve
they have for generations
advocates for peace
both in the domestic sphere and in the
wider society they are indispensable
has emerged during the beating of a bridge with
Instead of erecting walls
Women often tend to
be focused on mutatis
generations as some men at times
war might hold more focused
on the conflict in the battle on
that time have women
indispensable to the maintenance of
a social order and they
not really much else here
brabant
I think of my own mother and
night courses organized for the
women in the neighborhood
voluntary work for charities
there is community from which
Syrian women who have the same
community but there is still
important because the community
is torn by war
Therefore we invite free Syrian women
in fact we wanted a place
where women create in their security
view parts
which were contrary opinions
yet it feels very much like me
to also invite women who
supporting dictator and mothers
heavily armed rebels we some
as terrorists stamping
it felt like I was the devil in the hall
invited to join
but those women that moderate women
which supports the Dutch government
were willing to other women
to engage in conversation and it became a
huge emotionally charged meeting
because it’s not easy
to remain unmoved by the story
a mother one of them to our insaf
and insaf had lost her son in a
bomb attack at the university where he
aerospace studied and they sat on
my invitation
on stage next to her enemies
women who support the dictator
the dictator that bomb
threw college son
killed
and some of those women who denied
Anyway the dictator bombs
thrown on hospitals and schools
so then you need to swallow
you think or do, but then you see
fortunately that women strongly
and may very well for himself
stand up and I could only with difficulty
drogo the then in themselves that they
everyone had forgiven her own
personal loss because they do not
else could
thinking of the future of the Syrian
children still living
who wish to live in peace that was
greater than those women and divided
it amazes me that they over
many things were inches which
women were all against
starvation as a weapon of war against
rape of girls as war
tactics
they were all in favor of the
registration of prisoners
so everyone had at least with
dear and they were also recognized
all the bad economic
situation has led to the
radicalization of their own children
the only difference is he that
the children on different sides of
fighting the conflict
these women were able to agree on
conditions for peace
this heroic something not so successful
in the official peace process
Geneva
these heroic women who fight for
democracy and peace
something here in Netherlands here
Brabant is as a matter of course, and in that
feeling of humanity that it
once made difficult in New York at
thin un to restrain the tears
because you are literally facing it
is with the suffering in the world that is
and some of the un drives the un which there is
for the people and the UN Charter begins
with the words
who the people we the people and
feeling that you should help others
I have already since childhood home
it got and I know that it
Tad who can not share can
not multiply
The situation in Syria remains of course
but off a huge dark situation
then you see dark and bright spots
these women had a meeting
bright spot for me
I realized that major problems
require big solutions, but you
which only can be reached step by step
solutions by small women
individuals like to abolish I
also realized that we are not so much
the Syrians need to speak
but more need to speak with the serious
if we want peace must of
to be for everyone
and that is not saying it is important that
you have people who can stage
and to tell but not stage
who have no office in that
security is not in the penthouse
apartment building
but they have a lot of solution
have because she immediately
stakeholders and that is not
obviously because in my field
are often world leaders and
diplomats that name is a more countries
speak to the people who
it goes and I make myself there also
is innocent and that’s not good because
it is not good for the
credibility and not good for the
authenticity
because we can not from outside
solution to the conflict in Syria
impose
we can help the Syrians but
solution will ultimately acquire them
I myself have come to believe that the
syrian women
can set off reconciliation in Syria
help them as the backbone of
can be and thinks the united nations
happy there and about the same
created the first women’s advisory
in the history of the UN to
peace process to feed in Geneva
This woman here is this Syrian women
example, a small sample of my
work in New York in the un
and I have quite the past three years
I learned a lot for instance challenge
learned that it is very easy to
with someone who thoroughly disagree
which are to criticize the
finger pointing and condemnation from
the sidelines but it is much more difficult
to talk with your opponent
to go
it is difficult but also a courageous
useful
without you something about your principles
must put aside whether you committed
crimes should forget
Also, I learned that the whole
is important to the dignity of the
people who are not sight
to lose
the international community that gives
many humanitarian and well
was important to do Netherlands
but sometimes we beat ourselves that we
on the chest
but if you talk to the people who
it is then they’ll all
tell that the permanent depending
its humanitarian aid nor
way of living
is and people fleeing war
entitled to protection
which stands for in the un
refugee Convention
in my experience, these people more
Peace seekers or asylum seekers
but we are by lately
threats
We are fearful of raids
threat to us and the world is a
scary place
The world is a scary place, but fear
a bad counselor
and it is important that we threat
where the judge and a good
give appropriate response but not in
panicking or overreacting
it is important that a bit
modesty have the will, the
complexity of world problems
understand without us therefore
become polarized because what we see as
what we increasingly see that people
want to pull off back
concluding that world
but can not afford it
is not an option
an American journalist about it
have targets debate neighborhood
I will come and visit you if you
bad neighborhood not visit he comes
to you and to visit you and I think
that the choice between stability
export or import instability
not a difficult choice and I see it
as a task for me to properly
respond without fear and with
dignity of fellow human beings in
occiput
I’m still not always patient
and still not always the
politics but with the same openness
which at the petrol station in it
behind the cash register was gone I now
contacts as a diplomat
and I really know what I thus my
one that does not go to war in Syria
to resolve
Netherlands also can not but hope
I know that because of my impatience and far
slightly harder pressure
are slightly more tenacious and remember
to achieve than cautious people
I see it as my role to a light
to shine in the darkest places
the world
and for those people who have a story
also provide a platform for the
world stage
and in which owners association
that building where we with all his
now live in london and in Syria
because I do not believe we are in here
Brabant know true peace
as long as conflicts rage elsewhere especially
also because playing on securities
if there is war or elsewhere
We encounter them home early or
let the cons
and I do not think we as humans
peace with the fact that the toddlers death
beach or wash
we have peace with war
thank you
[Applause]
You might be wondering how a
girl from veghel
at the United Nations in New York
gets
some of you might know me as
the tiny girl who everyone
ears of head chattered as holding bowl
talk or teenager with the sideline
at the petrol station in echo, or if the
neighbor that likes going on holiday
the travel destination without the
liked most that trip destination
is still my favorite trip I
I made a certain sense of my work
After a short stop and I especially rice
to argentine, and then to
New York to Thailand and then to New
york and I do not know where the future me
yet will bring
but I do know that I feel at home
I’m never here in london
lose and it is thanks to this safe
home base
I feel at home my world
I’ve never been known for a
patience can confirm my parents
it is a prerequisite for the
operate in an administrative
organization
diplomatic’m also not real yet
I stand before you as a diplomat working
the political department of the
Dutch Mission to the United
nations
I am a diplomat because I have no peace
have war and diplomacy
about negotiations
communication and the promotion of
interests and diplomacy to work,
you are in touch with the people who
it’s alright
it might seem a bit far from their bed
but does it work for me at the
United Nations
also a link with Brabant
there is anything said about the
United Nations
especially when things go wrong sounds hard
criticism from around the world
You might also be thinking if the newspaper
world why read anywhere
but we should not forget to
two World Wars and shortly after the cold
war that, while it was
sense of international solidarity
had disappeared although there was
no third world war but there were
or wars in the Third World
and those wars that touches us most
none were far from good
so we did not bother but
niner since life is the feeling gebruk
of belonging back again
his home and abroad
inextricably connected
that if we do not know here in london
other
because the territory of Brabant finish
not in the Netherlands
we live finally in North Brabant
but it is just south of Brabant
in Belgium
we not only can the outside world
exclude that we see also a
lot of other things
think of the refugee crisis in the
mh17 fly grams or terrorist
attacks
The problems that you are not in your
To resolve one without
International cooperation is the
not
So when people ask me do you believe in
The vm your faith in the United Nations
you believe in the United Nations as
people ask me do you believe in the UN than
I say it’s not a matter of faith
It’s a tough business
interests for a country like
The Netherlands
and if we today lift the UN
tomorrow we would have to weather
set up and I can explain it in a
long story with many figures boring
abbreviations but I’d rather do it
otherwise, by means of a comparison
you could unitednations
like a beautiful historic
building with the Association of
owners of a beautiful historic
apartment building
the owners association, the VVD
193 members live in the flat neat tidy
Residents quiet residents who neatly
worn but also
troublemakers and has bonje
between the neighbors chimes nuisance and
lying around dirty and fought
between the neighbors over the exact division
between the little gardens
and the neighbors we go together to the
fist and tensions run high
and there are rumors that six high
the existence of domestic violence and
victims flights to three high
and local residents to talk about it
What takes it indoors
all off and the neighbors go with it
interfere
How do you determine in which flat I want
not really live but now lives in the
flat in the world of 193 countries
world is also characterized by
climate challenge
the war on poverty
terrorist attacks all
phenomena that all of us can
affect us here in Brabant and
Fortunately than VVD
you drag yourself every month to the
meetings to
sighing and groaning but you will be
because it is quite nice that he has
and that the house rules are who you are
does that apply to everyone
and also maintains together
and it will never be ideal rules
will always be violated but
is fine that they are there it is not
easy to 193 parties agree
to complex problems but
it is the only way
as VVD speaks about peace and war
not all countries are equally
join in the conversation
then just fifteen residents
which take part in the so-called safety
going and five of those residents have
in the construction of the flat in 1945
penthouse apartment where she got
permanently live and they also have the
veto given that they unilaterally
decisions can block and
is sometimes said
they may unilaterally
decisions blocking and we call
the aspect of the skewed ratios
sommar more equal than others some
are more equal than others
it is the harsh reality but we need
it provisionally Opt
the brush is said that the current
generational conflicts
occurs more within countries than between
countries simply going to say more
domestic violence than disputes between neighbors
but is no conflict in the world
which has no effect on play
if the neighbor the crane
Bath left open then the
water by itself through the ceiling at the
downstairs neighbors inside
unrest in one country feel
eventually in another country
I keep myself in New York working on
domestic violence case with
spillover effect
The civil war in Syria
The death toll has been estimated at
more than 400,000 13 million people
depending on livestock and food, and
medicines
In addition, there are six million people
homes to have on flight
Looking went to security and
rattling the doors of the neighbors or
further from home
war in Syria lasting more
6 years and the international
community failed
I work in New York for more than three
year the crisis and I am
part of that failing
world community and it is difficult for
work for peace and security can
be a slow and frustrating process
the impatient girl from that is
still in my so I find that very
difficult
and Netherlands is a small country and we
try to do everything at
to contribute to the many ways
ending the war but it will
Not surprisingly no easy
job is
let’s face also geopolitical
giants in this world have no
solution to the conflict
but we can not stand still, we are
can not do anything, we need something
doing so is in the interest of
Netherlands and in such a conflict is
important to the warring factions
to not only brings together black
likeminded
but also the dissenters the
Parties angled in such a conflict
standing together
for peace make do with
enemy with your friends
a concrete example of what I’m New
York went with a colleague
we organized a meeting where we
invited a group of Syrian women
a very diverse group
perhaps you now wonders why
women because women like no other
know what the tool of conflict
they are able sometimes proved more than
men to prevent conflicts or she
to solve
they have for generations
advocates for peace
both in the domestic sphere and in the
wider society they are indispensable
has emerged during the beating of a bridge with
Instead of erecting walls
Women often tend to
be focused on mutatis
generations as some men at times
war might hold more focused
on the conflict in the battle on
that time have women
indispensable to the maintenance of
a social order and they
not really much else here
brabant
I think of my own mother and
night courses organized for the
women in the neighborhood
voluntary work for charities
there is community from which
Syrian women who have the same
community but there is still
important because the community
is torn by war
Therefore we invite free Syrian women
in fact we wanted a place
where women create in their security
view parts
which were contrary opinions
yet it feels very much like me
to also invite women who
supporting dictator and mothers
heavily armed rebels we some
as terrorists stamping
it felt like I was the devil in the hall
invited to join
but those women that moderate women
which supports the Dutch government
were willing to other women
to engage in conversation and it became a
huge emotionally charged meeting
because it’s not easy
to remain unmoved by the story
a mother one of them to our insaf
and insaf had lost her son in a
bomb attack at the university where he
aerospace studied and they sat on
my invitation
on stage next to her enemies
women who support the dictator
the dictator that bomb
threw college son
killed
and some of those women who denied
Anyway the dictator bombs
thrown on hospitals and schools
so then you need to swallow
you think or do, but then you see
fortunately that women strongly
and may very well for himself
stand up and I could only with difficulty
drogo the then in themselves that they
everyone had forgiven her own
personal loss because they do not
else could
thinking of the future of the Syrian
children still living
who wish to live in peace that was
greater than those women and divided
it amazes me that they over
many things were inches which
women were all against
starvation as a weapon of war against
rape of girls as war
tactics
they were all in favor of the
registration of prisoners
so everyone had at least with
dear and they were also recognized
all the bad economic
situation has led to the
radicalization of their own children
the only difference is he that
the children on different sides of
fighting the conflict
these women were able to agree on
conditions for peace
this heroic something not so successful
in the official peace process
Geneva
these heroic women who fight for
democracy and peace
something here in Netherlands here
Brabant is as a matter of course, and in that
feeling of humanity that it
once made difficult in New York at
thin un to restrain the tears
because you are literally facing it
is with the suffering in the world that is
and some of the un drives the un which there is
for the people and the UN Charter begins
with the words
who the people we the people and
feeling that you should help others
I have already since childhood home
it got and I know that it
Tad who can not share can
not multiply
The situation in Syria remains of course
but off a huge dark situation
then you see dark and bright spots
these women had a meeting
bright spot for me
I realized that major problems
require big solutions, but you
which only can be reached step by step
solutions by small women
individuals like to abolish I
also realized that we are not so much
the Syrians need to speak
but more need to speak with the serious
if we want peace must of
to be for everyone
and that is not saying it is important that
you have people who can stage
and to tell but not stage
who have no office in that
security is not in the penthouse
apartment building
but they have a lot of solution
have because she immediately
stakeholders and that is not
obviously because in my field
are often world leaders and
diplomats that name is a more countries
speak to the people who
it goes and I make myself there also
is innocent and that’s not good because
it is not good for the
credibility and not good for the
authenticity
because we can not from outside
solution to the conflict in Syria
impose
we can help the Syrians but
solution will ultimately acquire them
I myself have come to believe that the
syrian women
can set off reconciliation in Syria
help them as the backbone of
can be and thinks the united nations
happy there and about the same
created the first women’s advisory
in the history of the UN to
peace process to feed in Geneva
This woman here is this Syrian women
example, a small sample of my
work in New York in the un
and I have quite the past three years
I learned a lot for instance challenge
learned that it is very easy to
with someone who thoroughly disagree
which are to criticize the
finger pointing and condemnation from
the sidelines but it is much more difficult
to talk with your opponent
to go
it is difficult but also a courageous
useful
without you something about your principles
must put aside whether you committed
crimes should forget
Also, I learned that the whole
is important to the dignity of the
people who are not sight
to lose
the international community that gives
many humanitarian and well
was important to do Netherlands
but sometimes we beat ourselves that we
on the chest
but if you talk to the people who
it is then they’ll all
tell that the permanent depending
its humanitarian aid nor
way of living
is and people fleeing war
entitled to protection
which stands for in the un
refugee Convention
in my experience, these people more
Peace seekers or asylum seekers
but we are by lately
threats
We are fearful of raids
threat to us and the world is a
scary place
The world is a scary place, but fear
a bad counselor
and it is important that we threat
where the judge and a good
give appropriate response but not in
panicking or overreacting
it is important that a bit
modesty have the will, the
complexity of world problems
understand without us therefore
become polarized because what we see as
what we increasingly see that people
want to pull off back
concluding that world
but can not afford it
is not an option
an American journalist about it
have targets debate neighborhood
I will come and visit you if you
bad neighborhood not visit he comes
to you and to visit you and I think
that the choice between stability
export or import instability
not a difficult choice and I see it
as a task for me to properly
respond without fear and with
dignity of fellow human beings in
occiput
I’m still not always patient
and still not always the
politics but with the same openness
which at the petrol station in it
behind the cash register was gone I now
contacts as a diplomat
and I really know what I thus my
one that does not go to war in Syria
to resolve
Netherlands also can not but hope
I know that because of my impatience and far
slightly harder pressure
are slightly more tenacious and remember
to achieve than cautious people
I see it as my role to a light
to shine in the darkest places
the world
and for those people who have a story
also provide a platform for the
world stage
and in which owners association
that building where we with all his
now live in london and in Syria
because I do not believe we are in here
Brabant know true peace
as long as conflicts rage elsewhere especially
also because playing on securities
if there is war or elsewhere
We encounter them home early or
let the cons
and I do not think we as humans
peace with the fact that the toddlers death
beach or wash
we have peace with war
thank you
[Applause]
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