Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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We are working with a wide range of countries, not just the EU-3, but all the members of the IAEA and a lot of other countries around the world, to try to create an environment where the Iranians hear one message,
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We are working very hard on this agreement on both sides. We have great respect for Indian colleagues with whom we are working, we have been active now for 11 months and there have been unique negotiations, very challenging. But there is a goodwill by both governments, and a commitment by President Bush to see this through towards a conclusion.
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This was an extraordinarily difficult process, ... This is not the end of the reform effort, it really is the beginning of a permanent reform effort that must be under way at the United Nations.
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We're not there yet. We don't have an agreement yet, ... But I'm confident that they're heading in that direction.
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We would hope these issues could be resolved before President Bush visits Kyoto in just a couple of weeks time. We expect that will be the case but there's still some remaining hard work that needs to be done.
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What has changed in the 1990s is a changed perception of the world,
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We strongly regret the measures taken by the parliament and government today to, in effect, introduce a state of emergency and to introduce censorship of the Albanian press.
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We are (also) disappointed that Radovan Karadzic is still at large and not in the Hague,
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We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.
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We remind the Burundi government and security forces that respect for human rights and peaceful dialogue should be key elements in their efforts to re-establish security in the country.
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We remember what happened in March 2004, ... There is no place for that in U.N.-sponsored negotiations.
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I don't think anyone would take a country into NATO that had a major territorial dispute within it, in the heart of it, that had not resolved this huge question on the future of Kosovo, ... I don't think there's any possibility of that happening.
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He gave a pardon to his son-in-law and then had him executed. He tried to make up with the Iraqi Kurds five years ago, and then tried to destroy them.
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There is a historic opportunity for the people of Kosovo now to define their own future,