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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And they're going to be consistent with other countries and other international practices. So, that's a good thing. It's one that contributes to transparency, to confidence, and frankly, to a lessening of tensions, not an increasing of tensions that are, frankly, conducive to arms races.
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at the same time, it's important to recognize ... the important forward movement that both countries have made in addressing issues between them.
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December 26 marks the one year anniversary of the tragic earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in eight countries and took the homes and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more.
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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 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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Every country is obviously free to decide what it wants to do.
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decisions about who should govern a country are best made by the citizens of that nation through an open and transparent process.
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The Russians, I think, clearly delivered a message consistent with the Quartet aims and the Quartet statement.
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There was no connection between the two events.
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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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helped forge compromises when gaps needed to be bridged.
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It's important to us that actions by states on the subcontinent are done in ways that aren't provocative, in ways that aren't threatening. I think that by all accounts the test met that criteria.
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That is one of the reasons why we think that the Sharon plan provides such an opportunity, because it offers a chance of breaking the cycle of violence, withdrawing from territory, abandoning settlements, giving Palestinians control over land, and reinvigorating institutions that can meet the needs of the people,
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He is a member of the government of Iraq and an official of the government of Iraq, and there are things that are important for us to talk about with him.