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The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response. -- Margaret Chan
I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. -- Colin Powell
The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler. -- Tom Lantos
Freedom of navigation through international waterways is critical to the international community and to nations in the region, including Iran. -- John C. Stennis
I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people. -- Vladimir Putin
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran. -- Moshe Katsav
As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community. -- Saul Perlmutter
Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will. -- Tony Blair
A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here. -- Joyce Banda
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money. -- Ahmed Chalabi
The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid. -- Ismail Haniyeh
The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with. -- Alija Izetbegovic
We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map. -- Silvan Shalom
Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had. -- Condoleezza Rice
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety. -- Ban Ki-moon
We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community. -- Joe Lieberman
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. -- Anna Lindh
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. -- Nelson Mandela
The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N. -- Charles Krauthammer
Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it. -- Madeleine Albright
Now, more than ever, the international community must act. -- Saeb Erekat
[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming. -- Clare Short
The international community will not accept such threats to the political process. -- Bernardino Leon
The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime. -- Moshe Katsav
The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war. -- Li Zhaoxing
The whole international community will be united in condemning what they have done. -- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Chinas development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific. -- Yoshihiko Noda
China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific. -- Yoshihiko Noda
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically. -- Barney Frank
Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community. -- Emma Bonino
Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program. -- Barack Obama
The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions. -- Bashar al-Assad
There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community. -- Jeanne Shaheen
It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations. -- Vladimir Putin
The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community. -- Norman Jewison
Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community -- Tony Blair
Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community. -- Rand Paul
The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money. -- Khaled Mashal
This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity. -- Vladimir Putin
The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist. -- Lynsey Addario
The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need. -- Lee Hyeon-seo
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective. -- Ian Goldin
Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis. -- Helen Clark
The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China threat theory'. -- Ye Xiaowen
The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. -- Leon Panetta
Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance. -- Lester R. Brown
The international community would like to see an agreement in Libya before Ramadan, let me be very cautious about the possibilities for an agreement. -- Bernardino Leon
One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it. -- The Edge
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept. -- Mark Regev
Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied. -- Boris Trajkovski
So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account. -- Michael Howard
The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world. -- Moshe Katsav
The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people almost half of all humanity to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth. -- Kofi Annan
It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones. -- Sergey Lavrov
I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly. -- Gerald Horne
Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. -- Kofi Annan
It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work. -- Giorgio Napolitano
Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it. -- Cary Fowler
The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order. -- Pope John Paul II
These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us. -- Kofi Annan
To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts. -- Wu Bangguo
The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan. -- Chuck Hagel
In the wake of winning the war, Poland wants to help win peace with Iraq. I believe that the international community cannot leave Iraq without support. -- Aleksander Kwasniewski
When it comes to reconstruction, before we turn to the American taxpayer, we will turn first to the resources of the Iraqi government and the international community. -- Donald Rumsfeld
We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open. -- Serzh Sargsyan
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes. -- Madeleine Albright
Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end. -- Elliott Abrams
I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values. -- Moshe Katsav
Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community. -- Said Musa
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis. -- Bianca Jagger
Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility. -- Javier Solana
Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country. -- Jay Rockefeller
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it. -- Moshe Katsav
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. -- Jenny Shipley
The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region. -- Condoleezza Rice
It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them. -- Martti Ahtisaari
Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before the international community realised the danger terrorism poses. -- Vladimir Putin
I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering. -- Goodluck Jonathan
As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything. -- Alex J. Morrison
We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance. -- Barack Obama
I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process. -- Alberto Fujimori
Extremism and Islam are completely different things, we strongly demand the immediate release of the Japanese citizens unharmed ... The international community needs to respond firmly and cooperate without caving into terrorism. -- Shinzo Abe
It will require a sustained military and financial commitment by the international community, working with the government of Afghanistan, to create the environment in which enduring democratic institutions can be established. -- Des Browne
I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come. -- Brian Mulroney
We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework. -- Li Peng
I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times. -- Jan Egeland
When you have an asteroid threatening Earth, it's uncertain where it's going to hit until the last minute; the decision to take action has to be coordinated by the international community. -- Rusty Schweickart
It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991. -- Condoleezza Rice
I believe that this is not only the view of the people on both sides of the Strait. It is also the common expectation of the US, Japan and the international community. -- Chen Shui-bian
A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through. -- Khaled Hosseini
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
The Security Council decided to deal with Iran's nuclear intentions. The international community will not be willing to tolerate an Iran with a nuclear capability and an Iran that collaborates with terrorist organizations. -- Moshe Katsav
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma -- Desmond Tutu
If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part. -- Barack Obama
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming. -- Koichiro Matsuura
...the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...has painfully affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international community. For the first time, we confront the real force of nuclear energy, out of control. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states. -- Charles Kennedy
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. -- Alcee Hastings
As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law. -- Stephane Hessel
The fact is, the most painful and tragic lesson of the 20th century was that regimes based on racial superiority and religious hatred can't be trusted to keep their word to the international community. -- Michael Bloomberg
China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such. -- Li Peng
We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term. -- John R. Allen
Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes. -- Condoleezza Rice
We don't see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and it's a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term. -- John R. Allen

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