Richard Boucher
Richard Boucher
Richard A. Boucheris an American diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmentfrom 2009 until 2013. He took up post on 5 November 2009. Prior to joining OECD, he was the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, a post he took up on February 21, 2006. The Bureau of South Asian Affairs was expanded to include the nations of Central Asia shortly before his confirmation...
credible embassy information threat
There is, again, credible information about a threat to the embassy compound.
purpose talks
The purpose of these talks is to get started,
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We're open to this prospect. We're indeed talking about it with other people, but at this point I can't draw to a conclusion.
involved meet people violence
But we don't meet with terrorists. We don't meet with people who are involved in violence or fomenting violence.
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I don't have anything to say on what Sen. Warner might have said.
five given months ourselves work
We've given ourselves another five months to work through this.
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We support the emergence of China in the region and on the world stage in many areas, as it's doing, ... we also expect China to play by the rules, to adopt the various standards of conduct that other responsible international players use.
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to ensure that they protected against sales and made sure that no sales were made despite Iraq's attempts to procure military equipment.
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has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.
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He says it doesn't matter if people are socialist -- we're going to fight together with them to destroy everything that we can.
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I can't program every step of the way of what would, we would hope, be a coordinated series of steps. But the intention is to go to the next round of talks and to begin addressing these issues in a way that's appropriate for the beginning of the process.
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groups that perpetrated violence so widely and broadly against the Haitian people in recent weeks.
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given the apparent lack of evidence and due process.
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Frankly, it's not clear exactly what it means,