Thursday 20 April 2017, UN Library, Palais des Nations, Geneva
Speech extracts & YouTube video
“The year after the prince left us, a visitor from London suggested I write his biography … Of course, there had to be a biography: a man so outstanding, so valuable to the world, so much loved and admired in his lifetime, should not be allowed to sink into oblivion.”
Ismailimail is grateful to Diana Miserez, author of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan for providing us permission to share the video of her bilingual remarks in both English and French.
image credit: UN Library, Geneva
“It is the greatest imaginable honour to stand here today, as together we pay tribute to a very great man.
We have just had the benefit of hearing from the High Commissioner how Prince Sadruddin was a dynamic and inspiring leader – as he already was as Deputy High Commissioner, when in the 1965 General Assembly the chief delegate of Tanzania, Mr. Mwaluko, said this:
“Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, the diplomat, the leader of men, the accomplished artist and the humanitarian, combines all these qualities with the same humility that characterises his community.”
That day, the General Assembly by acclamation elected the 32-year-old prince UN High Commissioner.
… It has also been a great honour for me to portray the professional life and the personality of a man of such tremendous distinction.”
– Diana Miserez,
author of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan: Humanitarian and Visionary
Guy Goodwin-Gill (image credit: Anvar Nanji)
“I received invaluable encouragement and help from some former colleagues. For example, Guy Goodwin-Gill, a senior law professor at Oxford, wrote the Foreword. Georges Koulischer, a retired senior director, contributed his extensive experience of Sadruddin’s work to do with Latin America. And we know the rest.
… former recruits have said that the best years of their careers were those spent with Prince Sadruddin. To what these people have said of their brilliant, statesmanlike leader, I wish to add the prince’s qualities of loyalty, intuitiveness, gentleness, humility, warmth, generosity and humour.
But the man to whom we now bear tribute cared above all for the poor and the uprooted, and died grieving that all too little was being done for them.”
“Your Excellencies, Mr. High Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen:
I hope that in time, not only will there be others who will write about the late prince, but that there will be very many who will try to follow his outstanding example.”
– Diana Miserez,
author of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan: Humanitarian and Visionary
Remarks by UNHCR Chief Filippo Grandi at the book launch of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan’s biography (image credit: UN Library)
Learn more about Prince Sadruddin by reading details of what is mentioned in the remarks above in his biography, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan: Humanitarian and Visionary by Diana Miserez.
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