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 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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What we're seeing here is an attempt to subvert justice, an attempt to subvert the rule of law by those that are bent on attacking honorable citizens of Iraq who are trying to see that justice is done, whether it be on the prosecution side or on the defense side.
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The United States is going to push for this, whether it's the president of the Security Council or not. We used up the month of our presidency of the Security Council to move this ball forward as fast as we could and as far as we could.
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We have seen reports that ... there is no distinction between 'abolish' and 'ceasing activity' and that the effect of Taiwan's action earlier this week was to abolish the Council.
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There is no rift between the United States and South Korea. We are close allies. We are close partners in a broad bilateral relationship and particularly in our common approach to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
There are going to be differences. That's to be expected.
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We always try to maintain a balance between being open but trying to protect national security.
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What's in front of us is ensuring that if there is wrongdoing, that it be fully understood, and that appropriate actions be taken,
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We will do all that we can, working with the Pakistani government, to see that those responsible for this attack face justice.
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We will continue to hold President Chen by his commitments not to take unilateral moves. We will be following events closely.
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We will continue to help with reconstruction and we join with the people in all the affected countries in observing and remembering the tragic events of December 26, 2004.
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We would have liked to see a peacekeeping force stood up yesterday. But there's a lot of moving parts to this. It is important to bring on as many people as possible. And that's got to take time.
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We would applaud China and its success as only the third country to launch people into space.