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 think that recent events only demonstrate the critical importance of developing comprehensive peace arrangements so that these kinds of crises do not recur.
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We recognize there are a lot of events that are converging at this very moment, but we don't see them as linked and we don't see them as a crisis. We see them as hurdles that we obviously will need to overcome.
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It is our hope that this mandate will set Iran on a course towards a more constructive and a new role in the region, one which eventually leads to Iran's full political and economic reintegration into the international community.
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The U.N. Security Council should be prepared to take firm action to bring about Iraqi compliance in the event they don't change their mind in the next day or so.
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This bargain that we struck with North Korea is working. We think that it increases the chances that North Korea's nuclear program will stay frozen, and eventually be dismantled.
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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 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're trying to galvanize European nations to take as many refugees as possible.
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We're not promising to bring it about. What we're saying is we're going to intensify our work. Right now, we're focused on providing political support for the opposition. And Congress has given us the authority and funding to arm the opposition.
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We're not moving ahead at the pace that one would expect if we're going to get everything done.
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This tribunal was voted on by Russia and by all the members of the (U.N.) Security Council, ... It's a United Nations tribunal. It's not an American tribunal. It's not a NATO tribunal. And the Yugoslav authorities know that.