John Negroponte
John Negroponte
John Dimitri Negroponteis a British-born American diplomat of Greek descent. He is currently a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Prior to this appointment, he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State, and the first ever Director of National Intelligence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth21 July 1939
CountryUnited States of America
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.
Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.
a good framework for the international community to support the people of Iraq in the creation of a stable and secure society.
I think the political leadership as well as the religious leadership is rising to this situation. They don't want to fall down that precipice, so they are struggling to avoid that.
I think then the conditions will be created for the most expeditious and effective delivery of humanitarian supplies.
I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.
We don't know what to make of it (the passage). It's unclear,
I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.