- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.
- Chamber
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 operation because there was no peace.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 you will just take in consideration your view today.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 always. It is not an excuse at all.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020