Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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When (Christopher) travels to the Balkans late next week and into the following week, he'll be making his point personally. And by then we expect that all prisoners will have been released.
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Obviously the Pakistani government isn't thrilled with this relationship, and they've said that publicly.
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simply put, the Dayton accords need to be modernized. They served Bosnia well over the last decade, but they were never meant to be immutable or set in stone.
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We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.
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Secretary Christopher believes that, based on his meetings today, that the tone (of the meetings) has been cooperative, that they are off to a good start, but he doesn't minimize the challenges ahead of us.
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Obviously we did not suggest this deal for Pakistan.
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One would have hoped that he (Ahmadinejad) might have chosen a speech with more humility, a speech with a greater inclination to compromise. He was quite defiant ... That did not leave a lot of room for compromise, for diplomacy.
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There's no way anybody from the outside can comment publicly and criticize the actions of our government midstream in a negotiation.
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The United States is sending a strong signal to all the parties that the United States wants the Dayton accords fully implemented.
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The United States is in Vienna today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) arguing in the nuclear suppliers group that international restrictions on India should be lessened, ... We have already taken certain Indian entities off the proscribed list of the Commerce Department so they can do business with American firms and the United States government. I think by the time President Bush visits Delhi in early 2006 we will see that both our countries will have met our commitments in this landmark agreement and we will see it come to fruition.
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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 shouldn't go into them because they should remain confidential, but they remain barriers to an agreement. I don't believe they're insuperable.
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I should also tell you that India has agreed that in the future, all of its civilian power reactors, thermal reactors and breeder reactors, will be placed under international safeguards.
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It was the only positive development I can point to.