Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross
Dennis B. Rossis an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, and was a special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asiato the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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Both men realize there is no military solution to the problem.
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Our objective is have the agreement implemented. Both sides have obligations and responsibilities, and we expect both sides to carry out those responsibilities and obligations.
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It has been clear from the guidance I had in coming out here that both ... (Secretary of State Madeleine Albright) and the president believe that it is important to bring this process to a conclusion. But the president and the secretary will make a decision on when it is appropriate to do so.
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It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
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Clearly, calming the environment is something that is important for everybody, for both sides. But they're also working to see if they can overcome their differences.
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The president ... wants me to focus on the security questions and I will be doing that,
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What's important is not meetings for their own sake but results ... that will have a consequence on the security environment.
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When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.
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We're not looking for meetings as an end in themselves. We're looking for results.
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We have a beginning. It's a step in the right direction. Now we have to see results.
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To have peace in the Middle East, we are going to have to see that religion is a source of peace.
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What the Bush administration needs to do is ... make their own assessment exactly what the landscape is. What's possible, what's meaningful. And if they focus that way, that will inevitably take some time.
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We are certainly at a very delicate moment where there is also a great deal of potential.
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My focus right now is meeting with each side ... to see what kind of conclusions they have drawn about the insights that developed at Camp David, and then we'll see if there are ways to overcome the differences,