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...
clarify experts korea laws march maybe meeting north officials questions steps taken technical treasury york
There will be technical experts meeting in New York on March 7 to get a briefing from Treasury officials about what steps we've taken, why we've taken them, the laws that pertain, and see if we can't clarify maybe some of the questions that North Korea has.
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They are going to North Korea independent of the administration,
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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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Our objective, ... is to help relieve the suffering of the North Korean people, despite our concerns about the North Korean government's policies.
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This is unfortunately not inconsistent with past North Korean practice, which is to ignore the needs of its people and let them starve for inexplicable reasons.
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These actions demonstrate that the junta's so-called 'roadmap to disciplined democracy' is neither credible nor inclusive.
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And it's unfortunate because there's a need that the World Food Program seeks to address and that we support. But we can't do that without North Korean cooperation. If there's not North Korean cooperation, there's not much we can do.
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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.
connection
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,