International Community Quotes - Page 2

• The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  People, Community, World

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• There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

  Moshe Katsav

  Country, Rights, Iran

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• Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first
  international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the
  adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the
  first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite
  the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent
  practice, it is still widely prevalent in all
  its insidious forms, old and new.

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Rights, Law

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• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

  Pope Francis

  Reality, Order, Leader

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• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Meaningful, Country, Community

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• Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Community, Political

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• We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.

  Li Peng

  Support, Effort, Community

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• In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be incremental change through Parliament. The UN did this, and failed spectacularly, and while they did, the human rights situation got worse. The dictatorship ignored the UN and international community, making not a single concession. Now we are being told again these Parliaments are new, we should engage with them and if improved they can bring positive change. I don't place any hope in that.

  Zoya Phan

  Rights, Government, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.

  Pope John Paul II

  Order, Law, Support

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• The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Country, Real, Commitment

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• It’s not just Israel who refuses to speak to Hamas. It’s the whole international community… Most of the democratic world refuses to have a relationship with Hamas because Hamas has refused to meet the most minimal benchmarks of international behavior.

  Mark Regev

  Israel, Community, World

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• Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

  Alcee Hastings

  Commitment, Years, Punishment

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• The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural development, enhance food security and maintain and accelerate momentum towards the MDGs.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mdgs, Community, Needs

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• I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Believe, Japan, Views

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• Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

  Bianca Jagger

  People, Community, Hussein

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• The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.

  Moshe Katsav

  Government, Israel, Community

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Lying, Community

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• The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Thinking, Views, America

  "Obama Is Average". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Effort, Community, Democracy

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• Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Light, Israel, Iran

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• Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Iran, Community

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• As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

  Saul Perlmutter

  Country, Team, Community

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• I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

  Colin Powell

  Community, United States, International

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• We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Israel, Issues, Community

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• The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

  Leon Panetta

  Iran, Community, United States

  "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta". "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. May 27, 2012.

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