Erik Solheim
Erik Solheim
Erik Solheimis a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. He is currently Executive Director of UNEP, the United Nations' Environment Programme. Solheim was leader of the Socialist Youth from 1977 to 1981, party secretary from 1981 to 1985, and member of the Parliament of Norway from 1989 to 2001. He was party leader from 1987 to 1997. He was appointed Minister of International Development in 2005 and also Minister of the Environment in 2007, and sat in both offices until...
agreed both decide expect geneva sides together
Both sides agreed there is a need to come together to decide how the ceasefire can be implemented in a better manner. I expect Geneva to be the venue.
confidence low
Confidence can only increase, but they have started at a very low level.
agreed discuss high improve level meet parties positive security serious
It is very positive that the parties have agreed to meet at a high level to discuss how to improve the serious security situation.
bad shadow
It's going from bad to worse. It's very worrying. It's a kind of shadow war.
major peace
It's completely insane, it is a major setback for the peace process,
both call concerned deeply recent sides stop
We are all deeply concerned with the recent escalation of violence. We call upon both sides to put a stop to the violence.
confidence low start starts
There is little confidence at the start between the two sides. Confidence can only increase, but it starts at a low level.
arrive doubt help norway parties pull rabbit resolve tendency wait
There is a tendency to wait for Norway to arrive and pull a rabbit out of a hat. There should be no doubt that it is up to the two parties to resolve (their problems), with the help of Norway and the international community.
elsewhere held
There may be a need for more meetings. They would be held in Switzerland or elsewhere in Europe.
elements moment parties positive produce risk stop undermine utmost violence violent
The big risk are spoilers who want to produce violence to undermine this positive effort. At the moment the parties should do their utmost to stop violence, but they should not let violent elements and spoilers derail the process.
agreed date tigers
A date has been agreed between the government, the Tigers and Oslo.
announce swiss talk
They should not underestimate the difficulties. We have to talk to the Swiss before we can announce a date.
easy entire four island key major meeting religions small solved themselves time
I think there's no other place in the entire world where four major key world religions are meeting themselves on one small island and they all make up a substantial part of the population. If this was easy to solve, it would have been solved a long time back.
agreement both fire importance meet paramount parties start talks toward
It is of paramount importance that both parties should meet urgently and start talks toward consolidating the cease- fire agreement.