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Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.
Hussein Of Jordan /
Jordan
Important Part
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Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero / Former Prime Minister Of Spain
Peace
Long
Terror
Years
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So Many Years
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I have no doubts, by the way, that Ariel Sharon really wants to move the peace process forward.
Leon Charney /
Sharon
Doubts
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There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.
Mike Love / Musician
Love
Peace
Different Things
Meditation
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Hasten
Peace Process
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
Yitzhak Rabin / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Process
Terror
Fight
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Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Ireland
Mistake
Process
Thinking
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Reduce
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A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
Yitzhak Rabin / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Aquariums
Essentials
Real
Essential
Towards
Leading
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Step
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It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
Richard Quest / Journalist
Foolish
Skeptical
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The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Return
Border
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Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.
Barry Mccaffrey / Professor
Colombia
Drug
Problem
Nowhere
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Risky
Skyrocketing
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There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.
Jeremy Corbyn / Politician
Hamas
Involving
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Talks
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As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
Elliott Abrams / Lawyer
Palestinian
Seriousness
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The FARC has given up their arms. They are now a political party. They are now doing politics, which is what a peace process was all about.
Juan Manuel Santos / President Of Colombia
Arms
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Political Party
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
Yitzhak Rabin / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Ideas
Long
Process
Toy Guns
Violence
Achieving
Arab
Consider
Peace Process
Ruler
Seriously
Toy
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Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
Gerry Adams / Politician
Example
Sinn Fein
South Africa
Taken
Use
Africa
Develop
Examples
Fein
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Productively
Sinn
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
Natan Sharansky / Israeli Politician
Peace
Concerned
Free World
Hands
Palestinian
Real
Succeed
Governs
Peace Process
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Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
Seamus Heaney / Poet
Do It Yourself
Fire
Ireland And The Irish
Political
Initiatives
Peace Process
Relations
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I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.
John Prendergast / Human Rights Activist
Humility
Impressed
President
Process
Time Peace Me
Efforts
Mandela
Peace Process
Spent
Supporting
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So many mouths can get fed, so many minds can be nourished, if India and Pakistan resolve the Kashmir issue through a Kashmiri-owned, Kashmiri-led peace process.
Shahid Afridi / Cricketer
India
Mouths
Pakistan
Process
Resolve
Through
Fed
Issue
Minds
Nourished
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It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.
William Hague / British Politician
Leadership
Country
East
European Countries
Giving
Middle East
Strong
Peace Process
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
Queen Elizabeth Ii / Monarch
Clear
Individual
Lessons
Load
Process
Stronger
Together
Working Together
Working
Whatever
Peace Process
Responses
Sharing
Throws
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It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.
Goran Persson / Former Prime Minister Of Sweden
Alive
Dialogue
Europe
European Union
Party
Sharon
Wish
According
Parties
Peace Process
Union
Wishes
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The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
Saad Hariri / Political Leader
Lebanon
Problem
Process
Focal
Main
Peace Process
Region
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I do not think we can dismiss the contribution that people make, particularly when it is a very dangerous occupation to be involved in building support for the peace process.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Contribution
Occupation
Dismiss
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I've been involved in ties with elements in the Arab world for years now. They wish to establish relations with Israel, but they cannot do so while there is no peace process.
Tzipi Livni / Former Minister Of Justice Of Israel
Arab World
Elements
Ties
Arab
Establish
Peace Process
Relations
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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
Brent Scowcroft / Former National Security Advisor
Concern
Fighting
Numbers
Palestinian
Saddam
Should Have
Terrorism
Followed
Highest Priority
Peace Process
Priority
Removing
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The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Cambodia
Disruption
Rwanda
Peace Process
Salvador
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I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.
Benjamin Netanyahu / Prime Minister Of Israel
Cabinets
Colleagues
Meetings
Want
Way
Cabinet
Internal
Peace Process
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The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.
James T. Walsh / American Politician
Abandoned
Goal
Ira
Mean
Pursuit
Struggle
Acknowledged
Armed
Fully
Inhibit
Peace Process
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But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
Gerry Adams / Politician
Secured
Sovereignty
Concluded
Republicans
No-One
Peace Process
Prevail
Successfully
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
Ingrid Betancourt / Politician
Colombia
Complications
Peace Process
Underground
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We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Politician
Council
Decided
Involved
Military
Rwanda
Security
Security Council
Troops
Uganda
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Presence
Simple Reason
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We started the peace process on the basis of land for peace and on the basis of U.N. resolution 242 and 338,1 as well as other international decisions on achieving the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
Yasser Arafat / Former Chairman Of The Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestinian
Resolution
Achieving
Legitimate
Palestinian People
Peace Process
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Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
Ron Silver / Actor
East
Middle East
Passivity
Strategic
Attacks
Forced
In The Past
Interests
Iraqi
Peace Process
Price
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The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.
Martti Ahtisaari / President Of Finland
Medical
Consulting
Midwife
Doctor
Mediator
Parties
Peace Process
Pilot
Ship
Task
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I have passed, I hope, many tests over the course of the last 20-odd years in relation to the peace process and intend to continue to work forward in a very sensible and reasoned way with political colleagues in the Executive.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Colleagues
Relation
Sensible
Executive
Intend
Passed
Peace Process
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I am concerned that there's a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the bag searches, the bomb scares and deaths. As they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Dervla Kirwan /
Attitude
Concerned
Memories
Bag
Bomb
Deaths
Peace Process
Repeat
Rhymes
Scares
Searches
They Say
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And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.
Frank Carlucci / Former United States Secretary Of Defense
Diplomacy
Direct
Involvement
Ought
Respond
Extraordinarily
Particularly
Increasingly
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In my opinion, Israel has the right to its security in as much as the Palestinians have the right to resist occupation. Israel has the power in this perpetual stalemate, as it also has the power to break it and begin a meaningful peace process.
Robert Del Naja /
Break
Meaningful
Occupation
Opinion
Perpetual
Security
Begin
In My Opinion
Palestinians
Peace Process
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As one of the participants in the Aqaba summit, I can testify that Israel fully expected the Palestinian Authority's newly reorganized and trained security agencies to take harsh action against the rejectionists who sought to wreck the peace process.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Authority
Harsh
Palestinian
Participants
Summit
Agencies
Newly
Peace Process
Sought
Testify
Trained
Wreck
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I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.
Shimon Peres / President Of Israel
Believe
Crucial
Delay
Israel
Judgment
Ripe
Urgent
Chances
Necessary
Palestinians
Peace Process
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This was not a decision made with the Israelis. This was a decision by the president for the American people. And so, it was a decision that we all said Jerusalem should be the capital and the embassy should be there. This decision should not weigh in on the peace process.
Nikki Haley / American Politician
Embassy
Jerusalem
American People
Capital
Israelis
Peace Process
Weigh
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The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Dublin
Garden
Reaching
Remembrance
Acts
Charles
Elizabeth
Engagements
Queen
Peace Process
Prince Charles
Recognised
Showing
Unionist
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Bill Clinton was one of the greatest presidents that we've seen. He was involved in the peace process in the very beginning, and he not only showed himself to be knowledgeable about Irish history and Irish-British relationships, but also he was very sympathetic to the idea of resolving conflict.
Martin Mcguinness / Irish Politician
Clinton
Conflict
Involved
Sympathetic
Beginning
Bill
Bill Clinton
Peace Process
Presidents
Relationships
Resolving
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While I cannot comment in detail about the inter workings of the State Department, it is a matter of public record that I recommended a visa for Gerry Adams to visit the United States. I believe then, and I continue to believe now, that this step did help to advance the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Jean Kennedy Smith /
Comment
Department
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Visa
Advance
Peace Believe I Believe
Detail
Gerry
Northern
Peace Process
Recommended
State Department
Workings
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We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We've had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we're going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace.
Nikki Haley / American Politician
Both Sides
Commitment
Israeli
Palestinian
President
Process
Sake
Sides
Work Hope Good
Pray
Negotiations
Peace Process
Pray For
Work Hard
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Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.
Amos Oz / Writer
Arafat
Egypt
Handshake
Jerusalem
Jordan
President
Process
Unhappy
Week
Arrival
Nobody
Beginning
Seen
Peace Process
Predicted
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