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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a sm

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, theyd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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The failure of the United Nations – My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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