Gerhard Schroeder
Gerhard Schroeder
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder; born 7 April 1944) is a German politician, and served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. As a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he led a coalition government of the SPD and the Greens. Before becoming a full-time politician, he was a lawyer, and before becoming Chancellor he served as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. Following the 2005 federal election, which his party lost, after three weeks of negotiations he stood...
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We always said that the regime of Saddam Hussein does not correspondent to democracy and human rights... but you cannot solve such problems with military means.
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What we have agreed naturally concerns developments in our countries, but also Europe's development, ... The two cannot be separated.
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Without a new mandate my political program cannot be carried forward,
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I made clear I cannot accept the precondition that we must cease military activities first and then start negotiating. I'm sure the NATO partners see it the same way,
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One cannot make the Serbian people suffer for their president, ... One cannot leave them without power in winter or without heat.
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I can understand when many individuals, in view of the horror of the images that one cannot look at daily, tend toward denial,
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I am proud of the people in our country. I am proud of our democratic culture which has shown that it cannot be shaken by media power and media manipulation,
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There is no reason whatsoever for a party like the SPD to relinquish any of its claims as long as it's not clear if the two parties want to negotiate with each other,
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This shows that we are well-advised to work with Russia as a partner to combating worldwide threats.
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Without the democratization of Yugoslavia, there will be no Western support for reconstruction,
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This will be a co-operation built on a common foundation. It will be fair, ... We have hard times in front of us and we're going to make it together.
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This will be a cooperation built on a common foundation. It will be fair,
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This requires a government that makes this its priority and I am very sure that such a government will emerge in the form of a grand coalition.
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We assume that would lead to there being sufficient energy reserves in the market and, second, we would wish the pressure on the prices of oil products to be lessened,