37 Quotes About Bosnia

  • Author Kofi Annan
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    Yet again, we face the abominable practice of 'ethnic cleansing' only a few years after it transformed the demography of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... The Serbian authorities must halt such actions.

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  • Author Joseph Biden
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    If the European countries that are there in Bosnia now all decide to pull out ... when we take out the land forces, I think it will make it very difficult to get the vote to expand NATO in the Senate.

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  • Author Nicholas Burns
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    simply put, the Dayton accords need to be modernized. They served Bosnia well over the last decade, but they were never meant to be immutable or set in stone.

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  • Author Jacques Chirac
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    France is ready to help Bosnia on the road to reconciliation, ... man of peace who symbolizes a tolerant Bosnia finally reconciled with itself.

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  • Author Warren Christopher
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    On this Thanksgiving weekend our joint work has made it possible for the people of Bosnia to spend New Year's Day in peace for the first time in four years.

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  • Author Peter Erben
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    In Bosnia in 2002 there were 55 percent, in the parliamentary elections in Colombia 42 percent, India 59 percent, Switzerland 42 percent.

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  • Author Christopher Hitchens
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    Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

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  • Author Jim Hooper
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    And because they have been unwilling to intervene early in the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo, they have ended up having to intervene -- in particular in Kosovo -- in a much greater fashion, a much stronger fashion later on after the crisis has grown, has expanded and the killing has gotten very serious.

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  • Author Richard Holbrooke
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    It's hard exaggerate this. If it had been for Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia would not exist today ... He was the visionary.

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