Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown
Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, CH, KBE, PC, usually known as Paddy Ashdown, is a British politician and former diplomat who served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 February 1941
trip worst
It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,
ballot box drive ghosts gruesome past people raise trying vote
It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,
leave might suppose
It might be done I suppose before I leave but I think that a little unlikely.
agreement bad build democratic lay tried war
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
trying produce sells
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
expectations justice done
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
agreement boards ambassadors
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.
balkans business europe present unfinished unless
The present Europe is unfinished business unless the Balkans are a part of it,