Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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the message from my government to the Haitian government is that they need to work with much greater speed and much greater efficiency in organizing these elections.
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This is a complex agreement. To reopen it, we're probably at risk of never being able to achieve it again and to reassemble it.
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Obviously the Pakistani government isn't thrilled with this relationship, and they've said that publicly.
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This is not the time for business as usual with the Iranian government.
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The United States has said that we find the Russian proposal to be interesting. And it might be a good way to proceed for negotiation. We've never said that we accept, you know, every detail on that proposal.
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I do not anticipate, and I'm 100 percent sure about this, any contact between whichever official is sent by the Iranian government and our delegation, including Secretary Rice.
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I've pledged to all of my Japanese interlocutors over the last two days that we would work with them over the next several months to see if it's possible to fashion a plan that would receive General Assembly support in New York, so that Japan could enter the Security Council as a permanent member,
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The Security Council has no option but to proceed with the Chapter 7.
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It is a unique deal for India. Despite our friendship for Pakistan, there have been proliferation problems of a quite serious nature over the last several years that would make this kind of deal impossible.
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Obviously we did not suggest this deal for Pakistan.
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The situation has changed fundamentally on the ground, certainly this week, but I think in general over the last couple of months in Bosnia, ... If the Bosnian Serbs felt at one time they could achieve a military victory in this conflict, they certainly don't believe that today and no one else does either.
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contribute to reducing the tensions that are so evident.
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This action was an outrageous violation of the Vienna Convention.
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All I can say is this -- when we deploy, we want it to be to preserve a peace that has been agreed to,