Vladimir Putin Quotes

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

The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

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

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

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

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

Only negotiations can resolve long standing grievances.

I am sick of answering questions about the fucking peace process.

There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

Our problem with Israel is that its leaders always talk about war and security but never about peace.

Cease fire is the main and the most important precondition for launching an implementation of the Minsk agreement.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a go-between with my experience, I will support the government's call for dialogue with the rebel forces who also have their problems, who also have their fears. I think all us Latin Americans have to help.

During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and that I was the man to do it. And my reaction was not printable!

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

Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

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

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

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