Robin Cook Quotes (153 Quotes)

It accentuates our grave concern about the increased risk of nuclear and missile proliferation in South Asia, and of escalating tension in that region.

(The Macedonian government) are now in a position of strength and this is the time to take a political step towards the legitimate aspirations of the Albanian population,

For years Libya has promised that it would accept a court without jury meeting in a third country. That way forward is now open to them,

how to bring home to President Milosevic the need for an immediate end to repressive action.

Hong Kong will be the main centerpiece of our relations with China for a long time to come,

I welcome any move which helps bring Milosevic to justice, ... It is vital that Milosevic answers these charges.

because we are determined to make an impact from our air campaigns and follow up on the good success that we've achieved.

We are very concerned ... We need to know she's safe, is well. What's happened to her is a scandal,

We expect this visit to provide a further boost to the excellent commercial relationships Britain and Argentina enjoy,

I want to spell out to the people of Britain why our forces are bravely risking their lives destroying Saddam's threat to humanity. Our objective is to achieve by military action the disarmament Saddam will not allow the UN inspectors to carry out on the ground.

We want to stop the breaches in the cease-fire and we want to avoid the potential of future atrocities,

We have done a lot here even if we have not done enough, ... We will use the next three weeks to convince the Serbs and to convince the Albanians that the agreement is a good bargain for both sides.

It's been imposed upon them by Milosevic who told them they would be guilty of treason to come here, ... (For) Milosevic to argue that it is treason to talk to the rest of Europe ... demonstrates how desperately isolationist he is and what a menace he is to the people of Serbia.

I think it would be doubly tragic if it does emerge this accident was, in part, caused by the persistent hounding of the princess and her privacy by photographers,

The Israeli people have made their choice and we will of course work with the person that they have chosen as prime minister,

The remarkable thing in these circumstances is how many of the people in Zimbabwe braved the violence and voted for change,

It is an historic step, and I am delighted that the U. K. played a leading role in its achievement.

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

And I hope he will be willing to work with us and with the international community to take forward that peace process,

What we are witnessing is not an end, but a new beginning, ... Today at this meeting we are discussing ... how the European Union can fulfill its lead role for the reconstruction of Kosovo.

It makes me very angry and also at the same time very sad that anybody should carry out such a violent attack with no possible gain from it and only suffering to the individual and his family,

If we are to take military action, military action must be in support of a clear political process. Today, we are going to agree on what that political process should be.

Those who carry out those acts should know that what they're doing is committing a war crime. They will be held accountable for it, and it will not just be the field commanders, ... Any political leaders we find who have ordered that type of behavior will also be held to account.

The objective of today's meeting is to summon both sides together and to do it on a tight deadline, saying 'we want you to meet next week, we want you to conclude very shortly after that'.

Belgrade had better take note -- the outside world is not going to let this one go, ... The EU is going to make sure ethnic confrontation is not going to be allowed to continue in any part of Europe.

Sanctions could not be lifted if he signs up to the agreement, but sanctions could certainly be lifted if he carries out the agreement,

President Milosevic has once again made clear his attitude toward the truth -- he's terrified of it,

One of the conclusions of this is that Blair certainly does not have a mandate to launch another war along with George Bush,

It is very appropriate that I should be visiting Lebanon today because tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 425, ... We would like to see 425 implemented.

We are showing that the longer we go on, the stronger become our attacks and the weaker becomes Milosevic's war machine,

We are looking for a strong declaration that there must be a return to the rule of law and an end to the illegal occupation of the farms,

we are dismayed by the nuclear tests which have been carried out by Pakistan.

To restrict leaders of a democratic political party from moving around the country is a denial of fundamental human and political rights,

I made it crystal clear there would be no further talks until the end of occupations, ... An end to the violence and the occupation of the farms is the essential next step.

In his words, they lack the basic elements of life and are particularly short of food,

We said last time we would not be giving formal warnings to Saddam Hussein, ... I'm not now going to give him any warning of what we might do.

NATO is not going to halt Milosevic from pursuing his violent repression by a dialogue in which we endeavor to point out to him the error of his ways, ... He will only abandon his plans to pocket Kosovo for the Serbs if he knows that we are determined to maintain the military campaign and prevail.

I warmly welcome the news that the meeting in Rome has agreed (to) the terms of a statute to establish the International Criminal Court,

We want to see the people of Serbia join the modern, democratic Europe, ... But to do that, they must also embrace the values and standards. That means they cannot have as their head of state someone who is an indicted war criminal.

Yes, but all the effort he has had to put into concealment makes it difficult for him to assemble them quickly for use.

has undertaken to consider how it is going to accept international obligations in that regard.

The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is ... whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward,

Tony made no attempt to pretend that what (then-chief U.N. weapons inspector) Hans Blix might report would make any difference to the countdown to invasion,

He has managed to convince half the media that the Foreign Affairs inquiry is into the origins of his war with (the BBC) ... not in to the war with Iraq.

We don't trust him. Of course we don't trust him. That's precisely why the critical element for us in any deal that can stick would be mechanisms to make sure he can't go back on it,

We are making sure that every possible pressure is brought to bear on President Mugabe, ... There has to be an end to the occupations and a start to elections.

I have to report to you that as of this morning, there is no evidence of troops withdrawing from Kosovo. Indeed, the reports we have suggest that the fighting continues,

There must be proper access to legal representation and it must be an open and fair trial which we can observe and monitor.

The starting point for our discussions will be the offer we made in 1988 to help fund a program of land reform, ... But it has to be a program that is within the rule of law and helps the rural poor. And the occupations have to stop.

This is a practical expression of our commitment to assisting Macedonia in defeating terrorism and the poisonous political perspective that Albanians and Slavs cannot live in the same state,