"But at the beginning, our definition of the……" — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide."
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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27 Quotes by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of…
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Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands…
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The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics
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Water will be more important than oil this century
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It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is…
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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or…
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The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with…
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We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
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There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in…
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So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind…
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We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
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