There's a sense that we've obtained from various quarters in the Security Council that the notion of an international tribunal is not… — Marty Natalegawa Copy Share Image
It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
It is clear that there would nothing a U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Syria because Syria is Russia's ally, and Russia… — Kimberly Zisk Marten Copy Share Image
I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice. — Alex Morrison Copy Share Image
Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy. — Ali Larijani Copy Share Image
Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
How can you have a world of today where India is not represented in the Security Council; Japan, the second contributor, is… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the… — Stephen Hadley Copy Share Image
That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple… — Greg Miller Copy Share Image
The abuse of the veto power has become so predictable that frequently resolutions are not even tabled because of the certainty of… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council. — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the Security Council is that there are vetoes, and they do not allow us to do what… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Look, Russia is a member of the Security Council. That's in the U.N. Charter, but we are going to hold Russia accountable… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
No one should have to go to bed hungry. It really is a moral issue that we believe the Security Council has… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
When a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council tries to deny self-rule to more than 40 million people, the whole world… — Lloyd Austin Copy Share Image
We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. — Jose Maria Aznar Copy Share Image
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation. There is no legal basis for referring Iran to the Security Council.… — Hamid-Reza Assefi Copy Share Image
In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“as demanded in the famous UN Security Council Resolution 242 very shortly after the war ended. As readers probably know, a Security… — Ilan Pappé Copy Share Image
I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
How was Kosovo recognized? They forgot about the territorial integrity of a state, as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Dick Clarke, who was head of counter-terrorism in the National Security Council, pushed constantly for the Principals Committee, which is the key… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments… — Alex Morrison Copy Share Image
