Yukiya Amano quotes

  • Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.
    -- Yukiya Amano

    #Country #Iran #Europe

  • Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.
    -- Yukiya Amano

    #Light #Korea #Water

  • The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
    -- Yukiya Amano

    #Iran #Issues #Long

  • Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  • A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

  • We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  • Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

  • Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  • Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

  • When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.

  • Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

  • If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.

  • England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

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