17 Quotes by Ruud Lubbers

We could bring everyday 5,000 people -- we are prepared for that -- to the camps,

Washington requested the Dutch services to inform them fully, but not to take any action so that they could follow Mr. Khan and try to find out what network was developing. So for quite some time, in fact, it was known.

Believe me, it will be a disaster from a humanitarian perspective.

It would be grave mistake, I think, to talk only in terms of attacks on terrorists and not to think about consequences for ordinary people,

a young Pakistani who works there (Urenco) and there are indications that he is doing things he shouldn't. He takes home information and copies it. And we have to sort that out. And maybe deny him entry from now on.

The counterpart in Washington then follows a course that amounts to: let him go and we will gain more information. And that is where things start to go wrong

I'm fighting hard not to see this only as a political-military attack against terrorists, but also as an effort for humanitarian assistance by giving ... generous support toward the humanitarian alliance.

his compassion for the world's dispossessed is well-known. This contribution will help to ease their (Afghan's) suffering.