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Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

Zainab Salbi

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Zainab Salbi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 24
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I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
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