Quotes on Balkans

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.