Kofi Annan East Quotations

Today I ask all the parties to bring to an end the violence that for 24 years has caused untold suffering to East Timor,

Such acts of provocation and vandalism will not deter the U.N. mission in East Timor from fulfilling its obligations,

Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basically it is in the hands of Indonesia.

There are no winners, and there are no losers today, ... This moment heralds the opportunity for all East Timorese to begin to forge together a common future in what is to become an independent East Timor.

In less than 12 hours, East Timor will be an independent country, a moment of pride and liberation,

This moment belongs, above all , to the people of East Timor who have so richly earned their freedom.

To advance the peace process, it will be important to put an end to the escalating violence in the north and east and to strictly uphold the cease-fire. The people of Sri Lanka deserve a new hope that peace could be in reach.

Ameen Rihani, one of the earliest Arab Americans, devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. We are not of the East or the West, he wrote. No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free.