Traian Basescu Quotes

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Today, member states have asked U. N. forces to go where they have not wanted their own soldiers to venture.

We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

Since 2001, NATO or its leading member states have initiated military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lybia. All three campaigns led to various forms of regime change, and. in the case of Iraq and Lybia, the deterioration of the state.

I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

All the nations that are adjacent to Afghanistan have a vested interest in the future stability and security of Afghanistan.

Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.