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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We condemn this violence. We condemn this terrorist action, ... We extend our condolences to families of the victims.
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We come at this problem of Iraqi compliance with a high degree of skepticism about their (Iraq's) intentions.
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We have been in touch with senior levels of the Italian government to express our view that Ocalan must not go free, and we are concurrently consulting with the Germans, the Italians and the Turkish authorities regarding these reported developments,
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We have been in touch with both sides, and it is our view they should continue to stay engaged to see if they can make progress.
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We have been deeply outraged by both the massacres at Racak and by Belgrade's confrontational and destructive response to the justifiable international anger,
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We will continue to encourage the two sides to address key issues,
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We would expect President Clinton and President Kim to discuss this at length.
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We would ... consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means as a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States.
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We believe NATO's guns should remain cocked and NATO's military commander should remain in a position to act.
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We urge North Korea to recognize this practicality and to avoid exacerbating the situation by keeping its craft north of the line.
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There are increasing reports of atrocities against Albanians. We are alarmed at the reports. We are putting a great deal of resources to check them out.
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There are increasing reports of atrocities against Albanian civilians in Kosovo. We are extremely alarmed by these reports.
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we have credible evidence, or we wouldn't be in this situation of demanding this kind of direct discussion on this subject.
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We often hear that sanctions are hurting the Iraqi people, but an objective analysis of the facts reveals that Iraq has access to international markets and the money to buy food, but Saddam will not buy or distribute it to the needy.