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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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.
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I think that our view is that we and Turkey share the same goals with respect to Syria, and that is that it end its objectionable behavior, whether that be in terms of supporting the insurgency in Iraq or interfering in Lebanon .
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So looking ahead to the referendum, I think the signs are good that there will be broad participation, that the results will reflect the views and the will of the Iraqi people.
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And the United States, for its part, is going to do everything it can to ensure that the rights of Iraqi citizens are respected.
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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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The signs are positive, are good, that there will be broad participation, that the results will reflect the views and the will of the Iraqi people, and that there will be a firm basis for moving forward on the next step, which is an election, another nationwide election on 15 December. And the infrastructure of democracy is growing, is strong.
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As far as the situation in Iraq goes, I think the international community shares a common interest in helping Iraq to develop a stable and successful democracy. ... Russia has been supportive of this. And that's the approach we take with regard to all of our partners in supporting Iraq.
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The United States has urged the government of Iraq to investigate and take action against any of its personnel who've been involved in torture and abuse.
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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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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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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.