James Rubin
James Rubin
James Phillip "Jamie" Rubinis an American former diplomat and journalist. He writes a regular column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Times of London. He was Visiting Scholar 2013–14 at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Having served in the State Department during the administration of President Bill Clinton, he became a Sky News television news journalist and commentator. He is married to the CNN correspondent and anchor Christiane Amanpour...
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Clearly, both sides have a lot of work to do if we're going to get the peace process back on track.
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serious and intensive effort to try to make the key decisions necessary for us to put the peace process back on track.
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the King will help bring home the importance of making tough choices for peace.
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The ministers are in intensive discussions with Milutinovic and with the Kosovar Albanians. If we aren't able to reach an agreement, we will say so and explain why.
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The international community cannot force the Iraqi regime to spend its money on its own people. Only the regime can do that. What we can do is force them to spend all the money they receive from the outside world for permitted imports on their own people.
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The feeling is that those meetings have been sufficiently good and constructive that they have ... superseded committee meetings.
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If Libya were to do that, then Libya would be complying, and the families and the United States that have sought justice would be getting the justice that has been denied so long.
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if there hasn't been a change (in Milosevic's approach) in the next three days, the Contact Group's decision to impose an asset freeze will begin to be implemented.
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In order to move forward to military action, it needs to be clear that Serbs are to blame
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By any rational calculation, Milosevic comes out of this much, much weaker.
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For our part, the administration hopes to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians significantly over the next five years.
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If he does indeed take power, he's going to start out with a strategic goal of bringing Syria into the rest of the world, and that will require peace with Israel.
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If, however, there is any new evidence that emerges, we would want to see the Salvadorans vigorously urge the government...to investigate and, if warranted, to prosecute those implicated.
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I cannot say that we have a breakthrough. On the contrary, we are working very hard to overcome differences.