Articles by Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter: What I’ve Learned from North Korea’s Leaders
Pres. Jimmy Carter – The Washington post, 9 Oct 2017

4 Oct 2017 – Over more than 20 years, I have spent many hours in discussions with top North Korean officials and private citizens during visits to Pyongyang and to the countryside. I found Kim Il Sung, Kim Yong Nam and other leaders to be both completely rational and dedicated to the preservation of their regime… The next step should be for the USA to offer to send a high-level delegation to Pyongyang for peace talks or to support an international conference including North and South Korea, the United States and China, at a mutually acceptable site.

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Gaza Blockade Must End
Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson – The Guardian, 11 Aug 2014

The UN should mandate an end to the siege of Gaza as a first step towards a settlement. There is no humane or legal justification for how the Israeli Defence Force is conducting this war, pulverising with bombs, missiles and artillery large parts of Gaza, including thousands of homes, schools and hospitals.

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Time to Be Bold and Make Peace in Syria
Jimmy Carter and Robert A. Pastor – The Washington Post, 30 Dec 2013

23 Dec 2013 – We would need Russia and the United States to agree to this approach, Iran and other regional powers to stop supporting their proxies and the United Nations to elevate this issue to a top priority. It is time to change the agenda, the preconditions and the strategy on Syria — and end the war.

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A Cruel and Unusual Record
Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Laureate – The New York Times, 2 Jul 2012

Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human rights has extended.

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Call Off the Global Drug War
Jimmy Carter, 2002 Nobel Peace laureate – The New York Times, 20 Jun 2011

In an extraordinary new initiative announced earlier this month, the Global Commission on Drug Policy has made some courageous and profoundly important recommendations in a report on how to bring more effective control over the illicit drug trade.

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The Unchanged Path to Mideast Peace
Jimmy Carter – The New York Times, 30 May 2011

It was not a new U.S. policy concerning the borders of Israel, nor should it have been surprising to Israeli leaders, when President Obama stated: “The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.”

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Support the Palestinian Unity Government
Jimmy Carter – The Washington Post, 9 May 2011

This is a decisive moment. Under the auspices of the Egyptian government, Palestine’s two major political movements — Fatah and Hamas — are signing a reconciliation agreement on Wednesday [4 May 2011] that will permit both to contest elections for the presidency and legislature within a year. If the United States and the international community support this effort, they can help Palestinian democracy and establish the basis for a unified Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza that can make a secure peace with Israel.

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GAZA MUST BE REBUILT NOW
Jimmy Carter, 22 Dec 2009

We can wait no longer to restart the peace process. The human suffering demands urgent relief.It is generally recognised that the Middle East peace process is in the doldrums, almost moribund. Israeli settlement expansion within Palestine continues, and PLO leaders refuse to join in renewed peace talks without a settlement freeze, knowing that no Arab […]

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GOLDSTONE AND GAZA
Jimmy Carter – The New York Times, 8 Nov 2009

Knowing of the ability of Israeli forces, often using U.S. weapons, to strike targets with pinpoint accuracy, it was difficult to understand or explain the destruction of hospitals, schools, prisons, United Nations facilities, small factories and repair shops, agricultural processing plants and almost 40,000 homes.Judge Richard Goldstone and the United Nations fact-finding mission on the […]

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HOPE FOR GAZA: ADDRESS TO THE UN RELIEF WORKS AGENCY’S HUMAN RIGHTS GRADUATING CLASS
Jimmy Carter, 2002 Nobel Peace Laureate - in Gaza, 16 Jun 09, 20 Jun 2009

Director of UNRWA operations John Ging, thank you for inviting me to Gaza. Distinguished guests, children of Gaza, I am grateful for your warm reception. I first visited Gaza 36 years ago and returned during the 1980s and later for the very successful Palestinian elections. Although under occupation, this community was relatively peaceful and prosperous. […]

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