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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We have been working and there will be a meeting tonight between the prime minister and the chairman at Erez,
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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,
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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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We're not looking for meetings as an end in themselves. We're looking for results.
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They conducted this meeting in a spirit of partnership, recognizing that they have common interests and common stakes. They each felt, and each said, that it was a new beginning.
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a very good meeting in which we were able to review a wide range of security issues and security concerns.
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And indeed they agreed that the leaders themselves should meet on a regular basis.
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The meeting will try to overcome obstacles and try to reach an accord over redeployment in Hebron,
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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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These cards have not exactly given Syria a very strong hand, ... The more the regime has tried to play the cards, the weaker they've become.
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They agreed that in addition to the negotiations that have resumed on the interim committees that they should see this kind of resumption of contacts on all levels between the two sides, including between the leaders.
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They acquire a kind of a momentum and we have to blunt that. I would like to see the president talk much more about those kinds of stakes because this is a way to explain what we're contending with, what we're fighting.
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The work is going very well, and ... I hope and expect that we will conclude an agreement shortly thereafter.