"We got involved in the Rwanda peace process……" — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence."
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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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But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened…
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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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