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 had a very good discussion, and I think we are making headway. Issues are being dealt with seriously, intensively and comprehensively in a way that I think gives us a chance to put the process back on track.
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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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There is no question that Jordan is strongly committed to the peace process and will always be supportive of any effort to try to find ways to put things back on track,
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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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This has been a good start and the process has been set in motion. We have to see the process produce results and we're working to that end.
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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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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.