Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 20 quotes by Boutros Boutros-Ghali Boutros Boutros-Ghali (بطرس بطرس غالى Buṭrus Buṭrus Ghālī , Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈbotɾos ˈɣæːli]; born 14 November 1922) is an Egyptian politician and diplomat who was the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) from January 1992 to December 1996. An academic and former Vice Foreign Minister of Egypt, Boutros Boutros-Ghali oversaw the UN at a time when it dealt with several world crises, including the break-up of... Read full biography of Boutros Boutros-Ghali → 1 2 Ctrl → A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There... → 0 For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide. 0 The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and... → 0 The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping... → 0 Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were... → 0 We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide. 0 I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor. 0 But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or... → 0 In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody... → 0 When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens... → 0 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... → 0 It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important... → 0 The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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