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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the Northern Alliance to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law and treat these questions with as much humanity as possible, ... elsewhere, everywhere.

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But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.

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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

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There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

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I understand even the excesses that can happen once you start fighting against injustice, not to condone it but to understand how you get there.

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You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

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cannot be solved through military means alone.

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So, the international community are all the countries that are important the United States definitely everywhere the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility and then the local players.

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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

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Bremer is the dictator of Iraq. He had the money. He has the signature. Nothing happens without his agreement in this country.

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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

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On the contrary. You see, the British - if there is one foreign force that would have left mixed souvenirs in Afghanistan, it's the British.

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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

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I think they want support from the U.N.. They think the U.N. has a role to play in helping them understand these problems and also in working out compromises and concerns amongst themselves.

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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

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For the past ten years the UN has been trying to help the Afghans end their wars against one another, but we have been unsuccessful.

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Not much, I'm sorry to say, because my father passed away when I was very young. I was eleven, and my mother was a simple, uneducated peasant.

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I am certain that the people of Afghanistan are very happy tonight and see in this constitution a new source of hope. ... The time for jihad is finished.

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There are growing pressures on us -- in part from the donor community -- to say there is a limit to what you can stand.

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The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

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In Afghanistan, the first time around, from 1997 to 1999 when I gave up, that is where I had seen these foreign players do their worst.

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I think we are pointing out to them that perhaps the evaluations of the time that is needed, the conditions that need to be fulfilled, are not accurate, and they are listening to us.

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men and women known for their honesty, integrity and competence.

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At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

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