Lakhdar Brahimi
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"Lakhdar Brahimi" is an Algerian United Nations diplomat, who served as the United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria until May 14, 2014.

He is also a member of The Elders (organization)/The Elders, a group of world leaders working for global peace. Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, an organization which works to promote good governance around the world. He is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a governing board member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. He would relinquish his post as UN Special Envoy to Syria on 31 May 2014.

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Bremer is the dictator of Iraq. He had the money. He has the signature. Nothing happens without his agreement in this country.

The days and weeks ahead will severely test this new government, and the solution to Iraq's current challenges will take years, not months, to overcome.

This incident, which follows similar incidents, adds to a sense of insecurity and fear in the country.

I am certain that the people of Afghanistan are very happy tonight and see in this constitution a new source of hope. ... The time for jihad is finished.

[U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has asked the Northern Alliance] to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law and treat these questions with as much humanity as possible, ... elsewhere, everywhere.

You who are taking this responsibility must show unprecedented courage and leadership. You must place the interests of your people first above all other concerns only then will this process, this attempt to break cycle of misery and destitution conflict and violence stand a chance of success.

You have a weak government or no government or several factions claiming to be government. You have a vacuum which is very favorable ground on which drugs and terrorism will grow.

Cannot be solved through military means alone.

A political solution is required.