Angela Merkel Quotes

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging.

To bring about a permanent peace in Syria, the southern part of the country must be protected.

The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.

Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them.

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.

I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home.

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

We will do our best to keep the trouble out of the rural areas, but if we fail, widespread massacres are inevitable.

I don’t see any role for American peacekeepers in the Middle East because there is no peace to be kept.

When civil war is regularly established in a country, and when the nation is divided into conflicting armies and opposing camps, the two parties in such war may be dealt with by other powers as if they were separate communities, and that such other powers may take part with one side or the other, according to their sympathies and interests, just as they might in a war between separate and independent nations.

If blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your lives are worth so much less than theirs.

Syria: It’s a messy civil war and we should not be involved in it.

When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.

I fought for years in South Sudan for the unity of Sudan. I was a commander in the fields, fighting for the unity of Sudan.

The Sudanese army has retaken some towns. The people there are all living in caves because the Sudanese army is shelling their villages.

When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

ISIS already has strongholds in Syria, while the Free Syrian Army desperately needs more U.S. assistance.

Middle Eastern wars rarely end with outright victory and permanent stability, so the word 'settlement' may promise too much. At best, for many years, it may simply mean stable ceasefire lines, reduced bloodshed, fewer refugees, and less terrorism.

It is time for all civilized nations to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria and demand a political solution.

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.