Adam Ereli
Adam Ereli
Joseph Adam Ereli was an American diplomat and ambassador. Ereli was the ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of Bahrain from 2007 to 2011. He subsequently was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs from 2011-2014. He is currently the Vice Chairman of Mercury, a public strategy consulting firm in Washington, DC...
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I think that our view is that we and Turkey share the same goals with respect to Syria, and that is that it end its objectionable behavior, whether that be in terms of supporting the insurgency in Iraq or interfering in Lebanon .
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I think what took people by surprise was the margin of victory. Nobody foresaw that huge a sweep.
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It is a sign that we are all working together.
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It is an unacceptable act of terror, a clear provocation and an escalation of violence.
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I think there's a possibility, we hope a probability, that Saudi Arabia together with the United States will be able to develop a plan of action to deal with these issues, ... And based on that, in 180 days, we'll review and decide whether sanctions are warranted, or whether they've made sufficient progress in addressing the shortcomings that we've identified.
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I would say we're at a preliminary stage. Let's see how the vote count goes and the results of the investigation are.
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I think it is fair to say that both the U.S. government and the Ukrainian government share a common concern and a dedication to acting to prevent or to find out and prevent cases of proliferation. That's certainly true in this instance.
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It is not something that I feel we really have anything to say about because it deals with events long in the past, it deals with intelligence matters and for those reasons, I don't have anything to say about it.
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I think that what we would like is a uniform application of universally accepted standards, and that's what we will continue to work for.
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It is hard to say at this point what it means, frankly. At this point, I can't say what the Iranians' intentions are.
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It is hard to say at this point what it means, frankly. At this point, I can't really say what the Iranians' intentions are.
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We look forward to continuing to deepen our cooperation on important issues, including counterterrorism, regional cooperation and security, defense reform, strengthening democracy and economic development.
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Our view is that the constitution of the Philippines and the rule of law must be respected and violence must be rejected. We hope the situation will return to normal.
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Our understanding from the authorities in Taiwan was that the action Taiwan took on February 27 was deliberately designed not to change the status quo ... Our firm policy is that there should be no unilateral change in the status quo, as we have said many times.