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
focus president questions security wants
The president ... wants me to focus on the security questions and I will be doing that,
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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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I think we've seen over the course of the last year is that Chairman Arafat may well be committed to wanting to live in peace with Israel, but his own capacity at this stage to reach a permanent agreement is at least something that has to be questioned.
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My purpose right now is to have a chance to talk to the leaders to see what can be done to energize the process.
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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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We're not looking for meetings as an end in themselves. We're looking for results.
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We're hopeful that we'll see an agreement very soon.
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If you are embracing violence, if you insist on maintaining an independent militia, if you reject the idea of coexistence, you are not a partner and we will not deal with you, ... The point is to be very clear; don't try to be overly subtle on this one.
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What I have found is that there is a will -- what we have to find is the way.
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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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To have peace in the Middle East, we are going to have to see that religion is a source of peace.
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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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At the end of the day, every administration does what it needs to do, but obviously they will have to pay attention to this.
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At this moment, the differences are too difficult to overcome, ... We need more time to work them out.