"The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?"

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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"I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria."

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"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."

Talk,

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"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today."

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"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."

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"In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops."

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"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."

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