40 Quotes by Fred Eckhard

an opportunity which the secretary-general hopes will be seized.

Apparently they are nowhere near Freetown. We can no longer confirm it out of New York. The information is just not good.

Apparently they are nowhere near Freetown, ... We can no longer confirm it out of New York. The information is just not good.

And the High Commissioner for Refugees would say, 'Well, at the very minimum at the outset we should be prepared for a certain number of displaced persons or refugees. Let's have X blankets, X food.' On that basis they came up with this $37.4 million list.

A U.N. disaster assessment and coordination team is being dispatched to Sri Lanka today to work with the government to provide rescue and relief.

This is not so. In any case, the issue is not the executive chairman. It is how to get on with the work of disarming Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.

This letter didn't say no, it just said consult us, consistent with our contractual requirements.

It's not our intent to pull out. We've stuck it out since '78, and we intend to stick it out to the end.

Everyone is scrambling to find out what has happened.