Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes

• 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 shown up.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don’t go with prescriptions.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• 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.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

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

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• 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.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• 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.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• 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.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• 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.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• 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.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

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

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• 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.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• Somebody was asking me the other day – President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that’s great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

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

  Lakhdar Brahimi

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

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

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

  Lakhdar Brahimi

• 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.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi (33)

Birth:	1st January, 1934
Nationality:	Algerian
Profession:	Advisor

Related Authors

• Ken Robinson
• Bernard Branson
• Joe Caruso
• McGeorge Bundy
• Maria Robinson
• Marjorie Joyner
• Harry Beckwith
• Ellen Shaffer
• Aaref Hilaly
• Paul Nitze

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 17th April

Births

• 1985 - Rooney Mara
• 1897 - Thornton Wilder
• 1957 - Nick Hornby
• 1974 - Victoria Beckham
• 1960 - Peter Sotos

Deaths

• 1893 - Lucy Larcom
• 2008 - Aime Fernand David Cesaire
• 1785 - William Whitehead
• 2007 - Kitty Carlisle
• 1998 - Linda McCartney