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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This is a process that has been going on for a long time. The ideas were originally conveyed in the middle of January. At some point it has to come to a conclusion.
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If you are embracing violence, if you insist on maintaining an independent militia, if you reject the idea of coexistence, you are not a partner and we will not deal with you, ... The point is to be very clear; don't try to be overly subtle on this one.
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I need to go back to report to the president and secretary of state. The process has to be brought to conclusion at some point soon.
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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.
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President Clinton made it clear he is prepared to get them together again if he is satisfied there's a readiness to make decisions.
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Our concepts are still basically the same, but we have made some modifications and that's what I've been going over with the leaders today,
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Both men realize there is no military solution to the problem.
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At the end of the day, every administration does what it needs to do, but obviously they will have to pay attention to this.
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At this moment, the differences are too difficult to overcome, ... We need more time to work them out.