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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Our objective is have the agreement implemented. Both sides have obligations and responsibilities, and we expect both sides to carry out those responsibilities and obligations.
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And indeed they agreed that the leaders themselves should meet on a regular basis.
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The nuclear weapons would deter us from attacking them, and they see that the weapons also give them great leverage.
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I need to go back to report to the president and secretary of state. The process has to be brought to conclusion at some point soon.
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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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There is no question that Jordan is strongly committed to the peace process and will always be supportive of any effort to try to find ways to put things back on track,
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The president ... wants me to focus on the security questions and I will be doing that,
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We have been working and there will be a meeting tonight between the prime minister and the chairman at Erez,
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We have a beginning. It's a step in the right direction. Now we have to see results.
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What's important is not meetings for their own sake but results ... that will have a consequence on the security environment.
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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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We are certainly at a very delicate moment where there is also a great deal of potential.
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We're not looking for meetings as an end in themselves. We're looking for results.
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To have peace in the Middle East, we are going to have to see that religion is a source of peace.