Petro Poroshenko Quotes

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

We need to restart political processes to end wars.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides otherwise divided on the question of how and when America's longest-ever war should wind down.

No one has hit the FARC harder than I. But all wars have to end at some point, and that requires a negotiated solution.

Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.