Famous Quotes & Quotations Authors From Egypt

Famous Quotes & Quotations Authors From Egypt

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	" 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 is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" Again, this was my perception; but when I was using the word genocide, I was not realizing that there was a real genocide. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" At a certain time, we have 70,000 blue helmets with more than 30,000 people working with them, so this never reached the secretary-general. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" 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. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" 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 the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" 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. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" 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 leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" My feeling was a feeling that there was a discrimination. Because it is an African problem, they are less interested. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" Retroactively, everybody paid attention to this telegram, but we practically receive tens of telegrams of this kind every day. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" 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 negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

	" So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa. "		Boutros Boutrosghali

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