James Rubin
James Rubin
James Phillip "Jamie" Rubinis an American former diplomat and journalist. He writes a regular column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Times of London. He was Visiting Scholar 2013–14 at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Having served in the State Department during the administration of President Bill Clinton, he became a Sky News television news journalist and commentator. He is married to the CNN correspondent and anchor Christiane Amanpour...
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Those are major sub-systems, missiles or key production facilities for missiles. So they're big and significant items.
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Our position is clear. Milosevic must halt the offensive against the Kosovar Albanians, withdraw his forces and embrace a settlement based on the Rambouillet framework.
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We hope that as a result of the kind of meeting we're trying to arrange, that the various permanent members of the council can bring to bear some leverage and turn this process around before it's too late.
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We do not expect to be able to achieve a core agreement in one round of negotiations.
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In order to move forward to military action, it needs to be clear that Serbs are to blame
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If Libya were to do that, then Libya would be complying, and the families and the United States that have sought justice would be getting the justice that has been denied so long.
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Iraq has not changed its stripes ... can find no grounds for optimism.
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Clearly, there are grave dangers ahead if the peace process is not put back on track.
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Clearly, we would not be in a position to carry on business as usual with Pakistani authorities consistent with our laws,
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if there hasn't been a change (in Milosevic's approach) in the next three days, the Contact Group's decision to impose an asset freeze will begin to be implemented.
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In the absence of direct, face-to-face discussions between the two sides it isn't going to be possible to resolve this problem.
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By any rational calculation, Milosevic comes out of this much, much weaker.
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I cannot say that we have a breakthrough. On the contrary, we are working very hard to overcome differences.
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For our part, the administration hopes to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians significantly over the next five years.