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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Secretary Albright just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and they agreed to meet here in Washington on Wednesday to discuss ways in which we can overcome remaining differences
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If, as a result of Prime Minister Blair's meetings in the region, the leaders are willing to make hard decisions they've been heretofore unwilling to make, that will be a good thing.
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The feeling is that those meetings have been sufficiently good and constructive that they have ... superseded committee meetings.
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As far as we're concerned, there still are very significant and difficult roadblocks to restarting the peace process. Hopefully we'll be able to clear away some of those roadblocks in Secretary Albright's meetings in London.
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But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.
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It's not over until it's over, and they (U.S. negotiators) are not packing their bags to go to Geneva at this point.
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This phase where we've been actively mediating might well close.
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This bargain that we struck with North Korea is working. We think that it increases the chances that North Korea's nuclear program will stay frozen, and eventually be dismantled.
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The G-8 summit is about personal chemistry, and there are two big problems. The president thinks (German) Chancellor (Gerhard) Schroeder lied to him, and the president thinks that Jacques Chirac screwed him.
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he will be able to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction in a matter of months, not years.
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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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At the end of that presentation, she was no more convinced than she was before that the endgame has been thought through.
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This is a legal matter between the governments of the United Kingdom, Spain and Chile. The U.S. is not involved.
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Mr. Karadzic has no place to run and no place to hide, ... The noose is gradually tightening around his neck.