Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrookewas an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth24 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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They're having a little bit of trouble getting their political act together,
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The U.N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U.N. in theory is supposed to be but can't.
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The director of national intelligence that the president proposed would indeed have no more authority than the current director of central intelligence has.
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I think this is a ridiculous outcome, ... These people are innocent and they should be freed immediately. They are not spies.
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It is a struggle of great historic consequence. Indonesia is one of the most important countries in the world, the world's third largest democracy,
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Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.
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Nothing is changed. The situation is very serious.
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The main reason for this is that the Bosnian Serbs still have not given up their core dream of creating a separate state, and that is unacceptable.
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in no way infringes on sovereignty (or) authority of countries, but shows the collective will of the Security Council.
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These contacts were designed to find out if the people with whom the American officials met were in fact people who have the ability to influence and control all the people with the weapons.
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one of the worst of the people in the region -- a racist, a separatist, a war criminal ...
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He said I will make available $34 million if those $34 million will make it possible for us to get the deal and reform the U.N.,
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He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.
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The key to this is prevention, ... People must know their status, they must be tested.