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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In the absence of direct, face-to-face discussions between the two sides it isn't going to be possible to resolve this problem.
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The G-8 summit is about personal chemistry, and there are two big problems. The president thinks (German) Chancellor (Gerhard) Schroeder lied to him, and the president thinks that Jacques Chirac screwed him.
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The citizen appeared to be in good health and made no complaints of mistreatment, and he indicated that he expects this matter to be resolved in a short time.
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All the significant gaps have not been closed.
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The goal is to shine the international spotlight directly on China's human rights practices.
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These are in a sense Milosevic's hostages. He's refusing to allow the basic rules of the road to be implemented. That is, that international relief agencies get access to them so that they can help them provide the bare minimum.
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These kind of episodes have taken place. This is not the only example -- but it is the only time we've been able to match actual videotape with overhead imagery.
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This is a legal matter between the governments of the United Kingdom, Spain and Chile. The U.S. is not involved.
All I can say is that we are very disappointed.
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alerting them to the danger so they are aware of what the problems are, what the risks are and what the specific information we have is.
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The diplomat in question no longer enjoys the privileges and immunities conferred by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. He has been expelled from the United States for not voluntarily departing by the appointed time. We do not have any further comments on the case.
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The kind of heavy-handed intimidation by the Serb police is emblematic of the repressive nature of (Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Kosovo, which sparked the current crisis.
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Russia has found itself out of the mainstream.
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These are the commanders, to the best of our knowledge, of the units that are in Kosovo.