Lakhdar Brahimi famous quotes

04-17-2025

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Respect #Understanding #Tolerance
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

#Country #Responsibility #Thinking
There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Commitment #Ideas #Rehabilitation
The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Country #Real #Commitment
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

#Country #Responsibility #Player
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

#Fuel #Weapons #Neighbor
People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#People #Realizing #Globalization
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Terrorist #Afghanistan #Playgrounds
Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#People #Needs #Helping
Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Talking #Years #Great Day
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

#Meaningful #Country #Community
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

#Country #Bravery #Everyday
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

#Respect #Moving #Ideas
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

#Giving #Community #Fifty
Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Moral #Authority #Unesco
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

#Blow #Talking #People
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

#Stupid #West #Facts
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

#Strong #People #Empathy
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

#Break Up #Country #People
Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#Country #Land #Afghanistan
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi

#People #Injustice #Rise Against

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