Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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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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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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Everything in the documents that have been passed over to the parties on Thursday and Friday ... had been talked about in advance, ... Everything had been negotiated in advance, ... including the question of the makeup of the future government.
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It is very important that as we go along, we meet the commitments made to each other. And that we not move the goalposts or, as we say in American English, raise the bar.
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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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Our message is clear as a bell to the American private community ... Get out of Zaire before you find yourself in harm's way.
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This is a clear signal to Hun Sen and his associates that the United States will not be conducting business as usual with those individuals,
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It's a waiver authority ... We are not seeking relief from US law for any country in the world except India and we don't anticipate putting any country forward. So it is India specific.
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It is our judgment there is life left in the diplomatic process.
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This is no time for the Turkish government to be making wild and dramatic statements. It would be completely out of bounds for Turkey to take this action.
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Out administration is fully committed to the India-US civilian nuclear energy agreement,
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I just can't talk about what ideas we may be considering. We want to have some quiet diplomacy the next couple of days.
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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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All the major issues in these peace talks remain open issues and by that, I mean, there are still in some cases significant divisions, significant disagreements and significant gaps among the parties,