Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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We're calling for their immediate release. We are making this known privately to the Bosnian Serb military commanders, and we're now making it known privately just in the next couple of hours to President Milosevic in Belgrade, and we very much expect that this call for the immediate release of these people will be met.
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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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We fully expect that the IAEA will refer this issue to the United Nations Security Council, where it should be,
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We fully expect that the governments of the IAEA will exercise their responsibility,
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We are very clear in our administration ... this agreement has not changed. We are not adding any conditions that we expect the Indian government to meet,
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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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That remains our plan. And I've been in touch with the Indian government this week. I expect to be in touch with them in the coming days, and we hope to reach that goal.
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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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Our judgement is that it would not be wise or fair to ask Congress to make such a consequential decision without evidence that the Indian government was acting on what is arguably the most important of its commitments--the separation of its civilian and military facilities
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We believe the resulting agreement (with India) advances our strategic partnership and is a net gain for non-proliferation. We do not plan to offer such cooperation to any other country.
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Out administration is fully committed to the India-US civilian nuclear energy agreement,
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I think if you look at American foreign policy worldwide, the greatest change you will see in the next three or four years is a new American focus on South Asia, particularly in establishing a closer strategic partnership with India. It will be the area of greatest dynamic positive change in American foreign policy.
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We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.
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John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.