John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
commitment continuing progress
We thought it was also important to show the continuing international commitment to progress in Iraq,
progress
We didn't get everything we wanted, but we made progress.
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We call on Cuba to cease all BW-applicable cooperation with rogue states and to fully comply with all of its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention,
hostile mass pursuit weapons whose
whose pursuit of weapons of mass destruction makes them hostile to U.S. interests.
clear few fine support
What we see is unanimous support for a very strong, very clear signal, and we're just down now to a very few fine points,
achieve formats help open time
Time is short, ... open to alternative formats if they help us achieve consensus.
agreed clear target
We made it clear that was not something we agreed to for a target for ourselves,
council goes moves period picks range rocket security speed turbulence
When a rocket is launched, as it picks up speed and moves down range it goes through a period of aerodynamic turbulence much like Security Council resolutions, ... We're now in the period of aerodynamic turbulence.
chain court crimes criminal discretion enormous prosecutor responsibility taken threat war
I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.
nations
There is no such thing as the United Nations.
absolutely clearance entirely essential field government irritating loyal national people positions procedures sensitive subject sure united work
I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.
likely security tomorrow
We don't have it yet. it's likely to be tomorrow when it's distributed to the Security Council,
again commission council existing few geneva meets
We'd like to see if we can get the commission abolished and the new council put in place before the existing commission meets again in Geneva in a few months.
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The debate in this chamber in July only highlighted deep divisions among member states and paralyzed the overall reform effort. We believe it would be a mistake to return to that discussion.