More Quotes
The President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres: “There is going to be a new Middle East, there is no choice. Maybe I was mistaken with the timeline, but there is no return to the past. Sometimes ideas are more powerful than armies and dictatorships. When I met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, I thought how he has made a bigger revolution than Lenin and Stalin – without killing anyone and without a political party. And his revolution reached town squares in Cairo. There is nothing easy in life and everything comes with risks. I don’t believe in winning the lottery out of the blue. But despite risks, you do things.”
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “We have confronted the Russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to Syria. They have, from time to time, said that we shouldn’t worry; everything they’re shipping is unrelated to their actions internally. That’s patently untrue. And we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically.”
Source: US Department of State website
Foreign Secretary William Hague: “We don’t want to see the Annan plan fail but if, despite our best efforts, it does not succeed, we would have to consider other options for resolving the [Syria] crisis. In our view all options should then be on the table.”
Source: The FCO website.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: “The danger of a full-scale war is imminent and real. Reports of yet another massacre in Qubair underscore the horrifying reality on the ground. How many more times have we to condemn them, and how many ways must we say that we are outraged? The Syrian people are bleeding.”
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: “[The UN] should not wait to tomorrow to investigate this new massacre. They should not give the excuse that their mission is only to observe the ceasefire, because many massacres have been committed during their presence in Syria.”
Source: BBC News