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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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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In this regard, Secretary Annan has been playing an important and, I think, proper role.
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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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That's not true. There are no plans for a trip at this point with Assistant Secretary Shannon to Venezuela.
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The secretary did not misspeak. The secretary knows exactly what he was talking about. And there should be, I think, no question in our mind of casting doubt or walking it back.
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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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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.
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be reviewing what has been accomplished, the strong steps that Pakistan has taken to combat this problem. And we'll look at how we can engage with Pakistan on international nonproliferation standards.
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their involvement in illicit activity is one, their human rights practices are another, their weapons programs is a third.