Ali Bongo Ondimba Quotes

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Libya is a huge disaster.

Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

Iraq is falling apart.

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

If nothing happens, if we just keep doing what we're doing, tomorrow is not certain. We will see families killing each other. We will see chaos in the country. The day after tomorrow will disappear.... The next civil war in Burundi will absolutely be over land.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

Syria: It’s a messy civil war and we should not be involved in it.

We have a failed state in Syria.

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

Like a nuclear disaster, the fallout from the meltdown of Syria threatens to be with us for decades, and the longer it is permitted to continue, the more severe the damage will be.

Around us in the Middle East there is total chaos. I'm not willing to give up on my land for this chaos.

We think that Kosovo will continue to serve as a centre of violence and regional instability in future.

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.