Mohamed ElBaradei Quotes (126 Quotes)

The board will request Iran to reconsider its decision to unravel a part of the suspension. The important thing for me at the end of the day is to go back to the negotiating process and avoid any escalation of the situation.

It is unacceptable, frankly, from my perspective to see conflict going on for 60, 70 years.

We need to bite the bullet and see how we can move beyond nuclear weapons deterrence, and I think that we have not done that yet.

If a state has the ability to do that (enrich uranium or plutonium), that means that it is only a few months from producing nuclear weapons.

I would urge Iran in the coming weeks to show proactive and accelerated cooperation, and to demonstrate full transparency by providing the agency with a complete and accurate declaration of all its nuclear activities,

No prohibited nuclear activities have been identified during these inspections,

We need explicit authority, good practical arrangements and information from all member states as to how to go and where to go to make sure that Iraq is completely disarmed,

It also makes it very clear that should any serious failures come to light in the future, these will be taken by the board with the seriousness that it deserves.

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

My message to Iran the international community is getting impatient and you need to respond by arming me with information.

Sanctions are a bad idea. We are not facing an imminent threat. We need to lower the pitch.

I urge all parties to use this opportunity to create the necessary conditions to return to negotiations.

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.N. weapons inspectors continue to insist things are moving along quite smoothly in Iraq. I think we're off to a good start, ... Our people are systematically building capacity in Baghdad. They are already doing systematic visits to different sites. And I think the level of cooperation we are getting from the Iraqis is good. So, so far, we are satisfied.

Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.

You need to address a package of measures. You know, security, economics, humanitarian. At the end of the day, you need to make the country feel secure enough that they do not feel the temptation or the drive to develop nuclear weapons.

We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

the agency has not performed any verification activities in (North Korea), and cannot therefore provide any level of assurance about the non-diversion of nuclear material.

By taking all the equipment from the spent fuel and the reprocessing plant it would enable them, if they restart the program, to make plutonium in a few months, and that's a pretty disturbing trend, ... American Morning.

We should remain humbled by what we have learned from the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We cannot allow sixty years to soften our memories of how devastating such weapons are.

I hope we will come. I hope I'll go.

They have a choice -- either to continue the policy of defiance and then continue to be further isolated and possibly subject to coercive measures, or come around and then open doors for the international community.

I hope we will find some way to go out from this situation.

I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.

The best protection against nuclear weapons, and the only way to prevent future Hiroshimas and Nagasakis, is to bring about an end to all nuclear weapons.

We are the ones who have the most credibility, not because we're the only ones who are trustworthy but because of who we are -- we are the representatives of the international community we have the independence and impartiality that create that credibility,

We have not seen diversion of nuclear material for weapons purposes, but the picture is still hazy and not very clear.

More than 15 years after the end of the Cold War, it is incomprehensible to many that the major nuclear weapon states operate with their arsenals on hair-trigger alert.

We cannot afford to have every country be sitting on an enrichment factory.

The board calls on Iran to rectify the situation but also underlined the importance of further discussion about Iran's decision. I read that to mean a call to all parties to go back to the negotiating table.

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

I think they are trying to use their nuclear capability which is supposed to be for peaceful ends to achieve strategic and political objectives, which is totally unacceptable,

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

We are now working with them to neutralize any activities, any programs that could have led to a nuclear weapon,

We have our inspectors still on the ground, still monitoring the freeze of North Korean nuclear activities.

The current challenges to international peace and security, including those related to nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear arms control, cannot be wished away. It is urgent and indispensable that we continue to build a global security system that is both equitable and inclusive.

The time is right for a political solution, and the way is negotiations. I would like to see Iran come to terms with the requests of the international community.

When inspections are accompanied by adequate authority, aided by all available information, backed by a credible compliance mechanism, and supported by international consensus, the verification system works.

It is essential that we take steps to eliminate both access to and production of material for nuclear weapons.

The message ... coming from the Security Council is that time is very critical, ... and that we need to show progress in our report, which will be due on the 14th of this month.

The international community has begun to lose its patience.

up to the (U.N.) Security Council, up to the members of the agency to take whatever measures to bring back North Korea into compliance with their non-proliferation obligation.

poverty, mental health problems and 'lifestyle' diseases have come to pose a far greater threat to affected communities than radiation exposure.

We hope to convince Iran to take confidence-building measures including suspension of uranium enrichment activities until outstanding issues are clarified.

I mean, we have taken care of threats emanating from sabotage, theft, natural causes like earthquake or hurricane -- but we did not take into the engineering analysis the possibility of an aerial attack by a large aircraft.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

What we have seen coming today from North Korea gives me a lot of encouragement that issues as complex (as Iran) can in fact be resolved if good faith on both sides exist.

in a very short period of time.

In areas where disputes have not been solved for decades like the Middle East, South Asia and the Korean peninsula, we see attempts to acquire nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction to overcome the feeling of insecurity or for wider influence, regrettably the steps of the (other) nuclear powers.

I do hope we can avoid sanctions and escalation. Sanctions will hurt everybody ... Iran will retaliate and I hope very much we can avoid that.