Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross
Dennis B. Rossis an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, and was a special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asiato the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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What the Bush administration needs to do is ... make their own assessment exactly what the landscape is. What's possible, what's meaningful. And if they focus that way, that will inevitably take some time.
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When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.
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My focus right now is meeting with each side ... to see what kind of conclusions they have drawn about the insights that developed at Camp David, and then we'll see if there are ways to overcome the differences,
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make the decision on how to resume with the final procedures.
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On the Israeli side there is real questioning, you do not see any signs of dilemma on the other side.
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We had a very good discussion, and I think we are making headway. Issues are being dealt with seriously, intensively and comprehensively in a way that I think gives us a chance to put the process back on track.
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These cards have not exactly given Syria a very strong hand, ... The more the regime has tried to play the cards, the weaker they've become.
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President Clinton made it clear he is prepared to get them together again if he is satisfied there's a readiness to make decisions.
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Our concepts are still basically the same, but we have made some modifications and that's what I've been going over with the leaders today,
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Do we have a lot of work to be done? Yes. Are we committed to what we can do to help the parties overcome these difficulties? Yes. Based on the discussions I have had, I see the potential for progress.
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They agreed that in addition to the negotiations that have resumed on the interim committees that they should see this kind of resumption of contacts on all levels between the two sides, including between the leaders.
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They acquire a kind of a momentum and we have to blunt that. I would like to see the president talk much more about those kinds of stakes because this is a way to explain what we're contending with, what we're fighting.
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The work is going very well, and ... I hope and expect that we will conclude an agreement shortly thereafter.
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This has been a good start and the process has been set in motion. We have to see the process produce results and we're working to that end.