Richard Boucher Quotes on Violence (22 Quotes)

immediate, credible steps to end terror and violence.

We are concerned about the violence and particularly regret the loss of life. But the parties themselves have committed a serious effort and are committed to a serious effort at the negotiating table.

We all know that these various individuals involved in this armed violence, many of them have a very unsavory history, to say the least. We do not believe that those people are welcome in the political process.

When we see Israel suffering these horrible bombings, when we see this kind of violence threatening once again to make progress more difficult, we're keeping in touch with the other players.

I have not seen anything that would--any evidence of that--that would corroborate that. There's certainly violence there that needs to be dealt with but there are also political and economic problems that sort of underlie the problem--the violence.

Certainly, we condemn the violence and the terrorist acts that have occurred and support them in their effort to end terrorism.

Much of the violence that we see now is being created by the gangs that were once aligned with the Aristide government. Without that factor, Haiti would be much closer to the rule of law and farther away from gang violence. So it's critical for the actors who supported these groups and who supported this violence to be part of ending it.

We've seen some positive steps so far. And we also believe that, as the Palestinians continue to take serious steps against the violence, that the Israelis, in fact, should take steps to ease the restrictions on the Palestinians.

That process needs to be respected by all Haitians, but we're glad to see the violence is decreasing. But the rebels have no role to play in this process, and they need to lay down their arms and go home.

What's important is for ... the Israelis and Palestinians, to remember that it's a time to maintain calm and to avoid any sort of provocation. We all want to go through this period with minimal violence.

These events are undermining constitutional order and democratic values and have led to a tragic loss of life. We repeat our call to Bolivians to reject confrontation that could lead to more violence.

We support the measured response of the Macedonian armed forces to such terrorist violence, ... necessary steps to uphold the rule of law.

In some ways, you could say he's assisting Ambassador Burns, and Burns has the overall context of achieving those steps of ending the violence and working on the timelines for confidence-building measures and getting back to peace talks,

the need to end the cycle of violence is still there.

We have to see all the parties cutting off money, cutting off support, cutting off the ability to operate, cutting off the ability of violent groups to challenge the authority that needs to be vested in the Palestinian Authority and then the government,

The steps that need to be taken now are steps by Chairman Arafat to stop the violence,

against a backdrop of a well-documented campaign of violence and intimidation against the opposition.

One of the unfortunate, maybe inevitable, side effects of that is that we're probably going to see a rise in violence as NATO spreads into this area in an even more dense fashion.

In this context, we think the Palestinians have not done enough to fight terror and to end the violence.

But we don't meet with terrorists. We don't meet with people who are involved in violence or fomenting violence.

We think such a position conveys on him certain responsibilities -- to exercise restraint where he has influence to prevent any further escalatory violence,

In order for such discussions to take place, however, a climate of trust must be created through sincere efforts to end the violence and, of course, taking the wishes of the Kashmiri people into account,