Quotes by Lakhdar Brahimi

About Lakhdar Brahimi:

Lakhdar Brahimi is an Algerian United Nations diplomat, who served as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria until 14 May 2014.
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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.

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Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

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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.

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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

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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.

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What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.

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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

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There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've show...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameLakhdar Brahimi
  • DescriptionAlgerian envoy
  • BornJanuary 1, 1934
  • CountryAlgeria
  • ProfessionDiplomat
  • Awards; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Of Speech; Wateler Peace Prize; Sergio Vieira De Mello Citizen Of The World