إذ جاء متعمدا وبالغ الفظاعة”. وأشد السخريات فظاعة أن يتم التفكير في هذا الهجوم وتنفيذه على منظمة لنا فيها جميعا مصالح، ومنظمة تجسد المبادئ والأفكار والقيم التي نتشاطرها جميعا والغرض الرئيسي منها هو السلام.
As our Secretary-General has affirmed: “This was the most deliberate and vicious attack against the United Nations in its history.” It is the cruellest of ironies that such an attack could have been conceived and carried out against an Organization in which we all have a stake, and one which epitomizes the principles and ideals to which we all ascribe, and whose primary purpose is peace.