Adam Ereli
Adam Ereli
Joseph Adam Ereli was an American diplomat and ambassador. Ereli was the ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of Bahrain from 2007 to 2011. He subsequently was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs from 2011-2014. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Mercury, a public strategy consulting firm in Washington, DC...
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Our dealings with Venezuela and our contacts with Venezuela are mostly through our embassy. There was a Venezuelan official here a couple of weeks ago, met with Assistant Secretary Shannon and other State Department officials, but there's been no recent contact from Assistant Secretary Shannon to the government or plans for a visit.
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And I wouldn't at this point make any specific linkages to what happened in this parliamentary election to any of those issues.
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The escalating violence threatens the process of democratization and reconciliation in Kosovo and must end.
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Our focus remains on diplomatic efforts to get six-party talks under way as a means of reaching the goal of a dismantlement of the North Korean program and a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.
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It is not something that I feel we really have anything to say about because it deals with events long in the past, it deals with intelligence matters and for those reasons, I don't have anything to say about it.
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And such remarks, wherever they come from, are insulting and offensive to all of us.
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That's not true. There are no plans for a trip at this point with Assistant Secretary Shannon to Venezuela.
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Steve was a brave public servant, a brave American, dedicated to his country and to helping the people of Iraq and the people of America.
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I think it is fair to say that both the U.S. government and the Ukrainian government share a common concern and a dedication to acting to prevent or to find out and prevent cases of proliferation. That's certainly true in this instance.
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Obviously what we want to see, what the Russians want to see, I think what the EU-3 want to see, what the IAEA want to see, is Iranian cooperation. To the extent that they do that, it's a good thing. Does this statement by this one person constitute that? At this point, it's just hard to say. We'll have to see.
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I would say we're at a preliminary stage. Let's see how the vote count goes and the results of the investigation are.
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The secretary and the State Department believe that questions of the committee should be answered. Secretary Powell is answering requests for information, the way that we do, the way that any American citizen does.
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They are going to North Korea independent of the administration,
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It's not a discussion of six-party talks. The forum for that is different.