John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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the United States and other members of the Security Council are concerned about the deteriorating situation in Burma.
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Management reform is not a one-night stand. Management reform is forever. What we really need is a cultural revolution in terms of reform at the United Nations,
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The issue is how is it possible this kind of behavior persists of denying the existence of a member state of the United Nations. I have viewed the map question as a potential pivot point to change this anti-Israel culture.
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In our view, qualified nations should meet criteria in the following areas: size of economy and population; military capacity; contributions to peacekeeping operations, commitment to democracy and human rights; financial contributions to the United Nations; nonproliferation and counterterrorism records, and equitable geographic balance,
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The United States is very pleased at the council's unanimous adoption
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Quite some time ago the president said unequivocally we support the development goals in the millennium summit declaration, ... Now that's different from the goals that were actually written by the secretariat. There is no backing away by the United States in the support for the millennium summit declaration.
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The United States believes that the long-standing, massive and covert Iranian effort to acquire sensitive nuclear capabilities makes sense only as part of a nuclear weapons program,
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For the United States, irreversibility is a paramount goal, ... bad behavior.
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In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.
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This is a moment of crisis for the United Nations. If we don't get serious reform, it's going to put us in a very difficult position, It's now two months since the end of the September summit and we have essentially not made progress since that point. We've got a lot of work to do and there's not a lot of time to do it
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As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.
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It is why we repeatedly caution that no option is off the table.
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In the bubble on First Avenue, Volcker is just ignored. I talk about it, but it's a solitary conversation.
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I hoped we'd be finished with the establishment of the human rights council before the end of this year,