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...
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.
achieved agreement confidence increasing parties
What should be achieved is increasing confidence between the parties and agreement for a new meeting.
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The high level of violence and the tragic loss of life are putting the cease-fire agreement at risk and will make it very difficult to secure further progress in the peace process.
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In order to keep the violence from escalating further, it is urgent to get the two parties to sit down together to discuss how to ensure that the ceasefire agreement is observed and how the peace process can be advanced.
agreement hopefully meeting outcome parties
The (hoped-for) outcome of this meeting will be some way of strengthening the agreement on the cease-fire and hopefully that parties will meet again.
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We are all deeply concerned with the recent escalation of violence. We call upon both sides to put a stop to the violence.
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.
april geneva meet parties strongly urge
I strongly urge the two parties to meet in Geneva on April 19 - 21 as planned.
bad shadow
It's going from bad to worse. It's very worrying. It's a kind of shadow war.
confidence low
Confidence can only increase, but they have started at a very low level.
major peace
It's completely insane, it is a major setback for the peace process,
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As soon as the parties bring the peace process back on track (...) donors will be more than ready to support them.
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We expect the Geneva talks to go ahead. We are at a crucial moment where the peace process can be moved forward. The time is right now.
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We expect Geneva to be the venue for such a meeting.