Lakhdar Brahimi
Lakhdar Brahimi
Lakhdar Brahimiis an Algerian United Nations diplomat who served as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria until 14 May 2014. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria from 1991 to 1993...
NationalityAlgerian
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth1 January 1934
CountryAlgeria
blow talking people
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.
stupid west facts
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.
strong people empathy
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.
break-up country people
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.
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Though it will certainly not be easy, we do believe that it shall be possible to identify, by the end of May, a group of people respected and acceptable to Iraqis across the country, to form this caretaker government.
commonly conflicts internal
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.
decide except ground guy understand
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.
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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.
element seem talking trial
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
asking looking met people themselves
The people we have met are at least asking themselves questions, at the very, very least. I think they are looking for a consensus.
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What we are suggesting here has the merit of enjoying the support of many Iraqis with whom we have met, and is reasonably simple and straightforward,
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What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.
situations
There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
heads together
we will have to put our heads together to see what to do.