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 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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She will make clear the stakes involved in this crisis, the threat posed, the diplomatic efforts we've sought to resolve this without the use of force, and the reasons why the use of force may be necessary.
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The air campaign will continue, and we will continue to make diplomatic efforts with our G-8 colleagues toward a peaceful resolution of this conflict.
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That effort is failing completely and totally. We don't see a point in negotiations.
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There are some extremists, and the U.S. is going to step up its effort to enforce security along the border and enforce security in the U.S. sector. And there may be some problems, but I don't think we should blow this out of proportion.
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We have urged both sides to exercise restraint and to avoid inflammatory actions that would heighten tensions and fuel a missile arms race. Missile tests would not be helpful to efforts to reduce tensions and build confidence through dialogue in South Asia.
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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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as an absurdity and an obvious effort to divert attention from the atrocities and other outrageous activities being perpetrated by the regime in Kosovo.
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It means that the momentum for the cooperative efforts between the two sides is increasing.
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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 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're trying to galvanize European nations to take as many refugees as possible.