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Lakhdar Brahimi

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

— Lakhdar Brahimi respect

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

— Lakhdar Brahimi war

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

— Lakhdar Brahimi art

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

— Lakhdar Brahimi people

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

— Lakhdar Brahimi money

So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

— Lakhdar Brahimi responsibility

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

— Lakhdar Brahimi time

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

— Lakhdar Brahimi people

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

— Lakhdar Brahimi adventure

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

— Lakhdar Brahimi community

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

— Lakhdar Brahimi world

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

— Lakhdar Brahimi author

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

— Lakhdar Brahimi money

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

— Lakhdar Brahimi experience

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

— Lakhdar Brahimi man

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

— Lakhdar Brahimi live

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

— Lakhdar Brahimi people

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

— Lakhdar Brahimi good

What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.

— Lakhdar Brahimi people

You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

— Lakhdar Brahimi people

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

— Lakhdar Brahimi people

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

— Lakhdar Brahimi country

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

— Lakhdar Brahimi people

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

— Lakhdar Brahimi men

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

— Lakhdar Brahimi man

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