Lakhdar Brahimi

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

“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.”

“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.”

“A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being t...”

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

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

“In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different b...”

“However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time...”

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