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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On the Israeli side there is real questioning, you do not see any signs of dilemma on the other side.
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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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And that's going to create a stalemate between the two sides unless we build a bridge to the future in advance of that stalemate.
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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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I really feel there's a need much more for a third party to build bridges between the two sides before it's too late,
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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.