“This crisis is a challenge to our conscience. It puts our committment to a hard test.”

—  Henri of Luxembourg

Address to the United Nations (26 September 2012)
Crisis in Syria

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Grand Duke (head of state) of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 1955

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