181 Quotes by Jan Egeland

The insecurity in Sri Lanka has claimed over 100 lives in recent weeks with increasing civilian casualties.

But we have not yet decided if and when I will endeavor to go back.

But certainly the Pakistani army is continuing to look for people.

I have received assurances from the government that this will never be repeated and that the government has taken a number of actions to prevent such an event in future. This is good new for us, because we don't want to leave Cote d'Ivoire - we want to stay and continue our effective actions for all the Ivorian people.

I had, in my capacity as a state secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the 1990s, many contacts with the Somaliland authorities.

I have asked NATO, and I will reiterate that appeal: think bold, think big, think creatively.

In the second week you will see much more orderly relief. The first week is always pretty chaotic.

If it continues to be so dangerous to do humanitarian work, we may not be able to sustain our operations for 2.5 million people,

In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.