34 Quotes by Jan Pronk

If even weak sanctions are not going to be implemented, the Security Council doesn't take itself seriously and they have to. They have to because otherwise the people on the ground are just laughing.

I don't see a voluntary return of more than 1 million displaced people to their villages to start in the next three weeks because of lack of security.

I am as positive on north-south as I used to be, but I do not want to conceal that there are risks, ... LRA is bigger than we thought and it's important to say so.

This is a good text. It is a balanced text. It is my conviction that it is possible to reach a full agreement.

All we did was picking up the pieces and muddling through, doing too little too late.

The commanders are united in their desire to continue the talks in order to reach a peace agreement by the end of this year,

The longer a situation like this lasts, the more difficult it is to change it anymore,