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
Lakhdar Brahimi quotes about
amongst concerns helping problems role support understand
I think they want support from the U.N.. They think the U.N. has a role to play in helping them understand these problems and also in working out compromises and concerns amongst themselves.
proud reason
have every reason to be proud of what you have achieved.
conditions listening perhaps pointing time
I think we are pointing out to them that perhaps the evaluations of the time that is needed, the conditions that need to be fulfilled, are not accurate, and they are listening to us.
afghans against help past ten trying un wars
For the past ten years the UN has been trying to help the Afghans end their wars against one another, but we have been unsuccessful.
asked looking question
There is no question of that. No one has asked and we are not looking for a job.
weapons fuel neighbor
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.
terrorist afghanistan playgrounds
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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.
acceptable across believe certainly form group iraqis people possible respected shall though
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.
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.
enjoying iraqis merit reasonably simple suggesting support whom
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,
equality freedom importance learned struggle
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.