‘SUMMIT OF THE PEACEMAKERS’ : Voices
Highlights from speeches at the “Summit of Peacemakers”:
“To the forces of hatred and violence, I say--and let us all say: ‘You kill yourselves and others in the aim of killing peace. Yet today, as you see, peace survives, and peace will grow stronger. You will not succeed. Your day has passed.”
--President Clinton
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“This terrorism is not anonymous. It has a name. It has an address. It has bank accounts. It has an infrastructure. It has networks camouflaged as charity organizations. It is spearheaded by a country: Iran.”
--Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres
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“We are now in the vortex of violence and terrorism, [but] we are not alone because the advocates of violence and the enemies of peace are isolated and condemned.”
“Equality and fraternity is the only future for us.”
--Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat:
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“Unfortunately such evil [has not spare] Russia.”
“We must draw up a strategy and concrete steps to combat violent acts. . . . Terrorism is one and the same everywhere.”
--Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin, comparing Chechen separatists to Palestinian terrorists
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“Do not resort to despair. Do not give in to calls of defeatism.”
--Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, appealing to Palestinians
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