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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We believe that it's important to achieve universal suffrage in Hong Kong as soon as possible, that the people of Hong Kong are ready for democracy, and that the sooner that a timetable for achieving universal suffrage is established, the better.
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We've asked the government of Libya to identify the source of the interference and resolve the problem. And we'll be continuing to investigate it.
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We'll be focusing here in this trip on further discussion of that, as well as working together to strengthen not only the global economy but to expand trade between our two countries,
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We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,
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There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.
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We share the government (and) people of Egypt's grief at this attack. We are, as ever, ready to work with them to confront the threat that we all face from international terror.
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We've been involved very directly and very intensively for a long time. I think the way to look at the events over the last 24 hours is a continuation of the United States' strong commitment to facilitating Israeli-Palestinian cooperation.
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We have a shared interest in continuing this cooperation.
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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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This is a tragedy and a crime. We condemn it absolutely.
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The fears are baseless. I think it's pretty clear to us that the motivation for this is not the accusation itself ... The motivation is an effort to detract from the government's increasingly deficient record of cooperation.
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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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This includes working level officials in those ministries.
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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.