Tag: Bernard Kouchner

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2007-10-04 "In parallel to negotiations on a new Security Council resolution, which must be pursued, I propose that we start right away exploring together the possibility of new European measures.
It is vital that the EU today show its determination and set an example once again by taking the initiative of firm new measures.
Time is working against us, since each day Iran moves closer to mastering the technology of enrichment, which means a de facto military nuclear capacity."
-- Bernard Kouchner, Foreign Minister of France, in a letter to his EU counterparts
2007-09-16 French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told a French TV station yesterday that the world should prepare for war with Iran as rhetoric around the possibility of conflict grows bellicose.
2007-08-24 They’re [= Kurdish leaders] in Baghdad, and that’s really something. These are people I’ve known for 30 years, who were in the mountains fighting for independence, and now they’re defending unity as Iraqi nationalists. That’s amazing. It’s very promising and at the same time stunning. There are amazing things going on: anything and everything can happen there.
-- Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister, interview with Newsweek
2007-08-24 Political matters are a history of settling scores among the big families and the big parties [of Iraq]. That’s what it’s like there. They’ve had 6,000 years of violence. So, finally, the daily death toll in Baghdad and in the country doesn’t interest them so much. And if you don’t understand that, you don’t understand anything. That’s one of the mistakes the Americans made. They understood nothing about what has happened in the country over such a long period of time.
-- Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister, interview with Newsweek
2007-08-24 Yes. I just had Condoleezza on the phone 10 or 15 minutes ago, and I told her, “Listen, he’s [= Nuri al-Maliki] got to be replaced.”
-- Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister, interview with Newsweek
2007-08-19 Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, arrived in Baghdad on Sunday on the highest-level visit by a French official to Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
1999 Kofi Annan made Bernard Kouchner United Nations administrator for Kosovo.
Bernard Kouchner is a founder of Doctors Without Borders

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