Akhmad Kadyrov Quotes

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

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.

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

What you need to do in conflict resolution is to bring the people who believe that the answer to their political ambitions will be achieved through violence into a frame of mind that they accept that their political ambitions will be delivered by politics.

That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so.

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Nations keep agreements, keep their treaties so long as they continue to do them good.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

Americans tend to go for it all. In international politics you can’t have it all. You have to compromise.

No country can be expected to make peace with a nation that denies its right to exist.

The limits of diplomacy must be acknowledged.

As much as the Palestinian authority is criticized for being ineffective and corrupt, we must deal with them.

The negotiations required here make the Paris Peace talks seem like a polite school conference.

It is not the position of the U.S. government to pressure Pakistan or to pressure India. If we can be helpful in bringing about a dialogue, then that’s a good thing

Every war I have ever covered – Kosovo, Bosnia, Sierra Leone and Liberia – withstood all diplomatic efforts to end it until Western military action finally forced a resolution.

Major General Thomas Jesup has committed an unprecedented violation of that sacred rule which has ever been recognized by every nation, civilized and uncivilized, of treating with all due respect those who had ever presented themselves under a flag of truce before the enemy, for the purpose of proposing the termination of warfare.

We have to rethink the two-state solution.

It is in Israel's interest not to govern the Palestinians but for the Palestinians to govern themselves in their own state.

Any negotiation on the basis of land for peace is a fatal mistake.

I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.