Ceasefire Quotes

• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  Hans Blix

  War, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

  Jan Egeland

  Party, Calling, Today

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• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  Hans Blix

  Motivational, War, Iraq

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• Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.

  Jeremy Gilley

  Impact, Together We Can, World

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• Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

  Silvan Shalom

  Fire, Important, Lasts

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• The armed struggle is not ending just now. We are upholding a ceasefire. We have our arms with us.

  Robert Mugabe

  Struggle, Arms, Armed Struggle

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• I do not support Hamas! I support human dignity and respect! I support sharing! I support Peace! #ceasefire

  Madonna Ciccone

  Support, Dignity, Hamas

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• There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel

  "There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire" by Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2006.

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• It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [the Islamic State], Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Islamic, Important, Goes On

  "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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• In the spirit of the Olympic Games, they traditionally ask that all fighting and warfare around the world stop. So, there's hope for a ceasefire within the Jackson family.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Fighting, London Olympics

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• Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which Iran could control, which Russia could control, which Syria could control, and which we and our coalition friends could control - if one man would merely make it known to the world that he doesn't have to be part of the long-term future; he'll help manage Syria out of this mess and then go off into the sunset, as most people do after a period of public life. If he were to do that, then you could stop the violence and quickly move to management.

  John F. Kerry

  Moving, Sunset, Men

  "Interview With Nicolle Wallace, Mike Barnicle, Mark Halperin, Richard Haass, and Katty Kay of MSNBC's Morning Joe". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2015.

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• Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Impossible, Making Peace, Hamas

  "Son of senior Hamas figure claims to be Israeli informant". Ha'aretz Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2010.

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• UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

  Kofi Annan

  Home, Rights, Blue

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• No Separation! We all bleed the same color! #ceasefire #peaceinthemiddleeast #livingforlove

  Madonna Ciccone

  Color, Separation

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• Our approach is very simple we have nothing to negotiate ... We have the Minsk format and we need immediately just a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy artillery and weapons and tanks from the touchline, the solution is very simple - stop supplying weapons ... withdraw the troops and close the border. Very simple peace plan. If you want to discuss something different, it means you are not for peace, you are for war.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Peace, War, Mean

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• If anybody attacks us we will readjust and mobilise ourselves for action immediately. That will be the end of the ceasefire if it happens during the ceasefire period. If it happens after we have won the elections, naturally we will put up a resistance.

  Robert Mugabe

  Resistance, Action, Election

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Korea

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.

  David Trimble

  August, People, Ira

  Source: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• The small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States, to the point where all the United States of America, the greatest nation on Earth, just withdraws from talks about a ceasefire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begin - look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.

  Mike Pence

  Bullying, Strong, Russia

  Source: www.politico.com

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