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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That effort is failing completely and totally. We don't see a point in negotiations.
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NATO authorities will have to make a judgment at the end of the week whether there is substantial and serious compliance on the part of President Milosevic,
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That whole process of bringing the people together has been frozen,
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There are increasing reports of atrocities against Albanians. We are alarmed at the reports. We are putting a great deal of resources to check them out.
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There are increasing reports of atrocities against Albanian civilians in Kosovo. We are extremely alarmed by these reports.
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We're not promising to bring it about. What we're saying is we're going to intensify our work. Right now, we're focused on providing political support for the opposition. And Congress has given us the authority and funding to arm the opposition.
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We're not moving ahead at the pace that one would expect if we're going to get everything done.
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This tribunal was voted on by Russia and by all the members of the (U.N.) Security Council, ... It's a United Nations tribunal. It's not an American tribunal. It's not a NATO tribunal. And the Yugoslav authorities know that.
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We believe NATO's guns should remain cocked and NATO's military commander should remain in a position to act.
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We often hear that sanctions are hurting the Iraqi people, but an objective analysis of the facts reveals that Iraq has access to international markets and the money to buy food, but Saddam will not buy or distribute it to the needy.
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We view his detention for peacefully exercising fundamental freedoms guaranteed by international human rights instruments as a serious step in the wrong direction.
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We don't need any more principles now. We need to get down to brass tacks and get an agreement.
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We condemn this violence. We condemn this terrorist action, ... We extend our condolences to families of the victims.
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We come at this problem of Iraqi compliance with a high degree of skepticism about their (Iraq's) intentions.