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Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, GCMG, KBE, CH, PC , allgemein als Paddy Ashdown bekannt, war ein britischer Politiker, der zwischen 1988 und 1999 Vorsitzender der Liberaldemokraten und zwischen 2002 und 2006 Hoher Repräsentant für Bosnien und Herzegowina der Vereinten Nationen in Bosnien und Herzegowina war. Er war Peer auf Lebenszeit. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Februar 1941 – 22. Dezember 2018
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“There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.”

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Quoted in the Independent (25 November 1998).

“History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.”

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Radio series for the BBC (2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6662539.stm

“My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.”

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As quoted in "Farewell, Sarajevo" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/02/warcrimes.politics (1 November 2005), The Guardian

“I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.”

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As quoted in "Farewell, Sarajevo" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/02/warcrimes.politics (1 November 2005), The Guardian

“Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.”

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As quoted in "Farewell, Sarajevo" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/02/warcrimes.politics (1 November 2005), The Guardian

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