{"id":940,"date":"2019-01-06T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T10:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2019-01-06T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T10:55:58","slug":"annan-the-state-is-the-servant-of-its-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/01\/annan-the-state-is-the-servant-of-its-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Annan: &#8220;The State is the servant of its people&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Kofi Annan in his UN Secretary-General&#8217;s 1999 annual report: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The State is now widely understood to be the servant of its people, and not vice versa. At the same time, individual sovereignty &#8212; and by this I mean the human rights and fundamental freedoms of each and every individual as enshrined in our Charter &#8212; has been enhanced by a renewed consciousness of the right of every individual to control his or her own destiny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a call for a &#8216;responsibility to protect&#8217;, meaning going in to prevent a new Holocaust.\u00a0 Other said it should be used to intervene in natural disasters if the government won&#8217;t.\u00a0 Tony Blair took it to mean sovereignty no longer mattered, so it is OK to go to war with Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kofi Annan in his UN Secretary-General&#8217;s 1999 annual report: The State is now widely understood to be the servant of its people, and not vice versa. At the same time, individual sovereignty &#8212; and by this I mean the human &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/01\/annan-the-state-is-the-servant-of-its-people\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,320,224],"tags":[158,321,226],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absolute-power","category-diplomacy","category-human-rights","tag-absolute-power","tag-diplomacy","tag-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}