Ayelet Shaked Quotes

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

The government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other.

I want to make clear, in the most emphatic way, that the government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept measures that, in a unilateral way, one government wants to impose on another. That we are not going to accept.

For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders.

Let us keep clear of interfering with their [Egypt’s] internal affairs; let us leave reforms to them and their peoples.

Above all, I had to fight for the image of the Kingdom, which meant standing up to the Americans to save our country from appearing an American dependency.

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality, and entire independence of all distinct states, is a fundamental principle of public law. It is a necessary consequence of this equality that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion, or a course of internal policy, to another. No state is entitled to take cognizance or notice of the domestic administration of another state, or of what passes within it as between the government and its own subjects

We shall not allow our territory to be used by, nor shall we support, any group seeking to overthrow a government through unconstitutional means in any of our neighboring countries. In turn, we expect all our neighbors to treat and relate to us in similar manner.

No nation is so lost to pride as to submit the conduct of its internal affairs to the arbitrament of foreign powers.

Please don't intervene. Please leave us alone. It is my job and we can cope with this matter. We are trying to explain this to foreigners. But if they do not understand or ignore our explanation, I don't care because we are not begging them for food.

No country can decide for another county.

We don’t tell others how to run their countries.

Any nation's right to form a government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.... Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

Israel never interferes in the domestic issues of any other country. It's not our matter; it's not our policy.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty.

On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.