Emyr Parry
Emyr Parry
Sir Emyr Jones Parry GCMG FInstPis a retired British diplomat. He is a former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and former UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council...
actively driving forward management proposals putting
very actively on the management dossier and putting forward proposals and driving it.
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We're quite clear that's what we need to do if the African Union agrees, but the African Union must be brought to agree.
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We're looking now at a mix of different comments on basic texts. We've made a bit of progress but we have quite a lot more progress to make.
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There are some points not in the text that frankly we would have preferred to have seen in the text. Other colleagues said no, that would send a different message at this particular time.
clear highest intensity level
is to show the intensity of the concern, and to make it very clear at the highest level what we expect.
continued deal
We don't have a deal but we continued our discussions, we will continue them and we edged forward... but it's edging forward.
confident quite
We are not there yet, but I am quite confident that we will be soon.
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We have a very serious situation with Iran. This is not a dispute between the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany) and Iran. It is the interest of the international community as a whole.
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We are discussing the best means by which we can apply pressure to encourage Iran to meet what the board has asked and demonstrate our support for the board.
actions minimize possible risk serious situation
It's potentially a very serious situation. Some of the actions have aggravated that situation and we must do everything possible to minimize the risk of a re-emergence of conflict.
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I joined with the representative of a bigger country, the United States, in putting forward today four names representing a balanced package and it will be our intention to recommend to our colleagues that sanction measures should be taken against the four listed.
consent request
at the request of and with the consent of a government.
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It's a new concept, it is to cap the expenditure within a year for a given an amount and to then say when you've run out of that money or are about to, come ask us for some more but then people can make a judgment.
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Don't expect Rome to be built in a day, it wasn't, ... Against the difficulty of this negotiation, it's complexity, this is a very substantial gain.