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 do not expect to be able to achieve a core agreement in one round of negotiations.
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We would expect President Clinton and President Kim to discuss this at length.
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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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We have no illusions about China an d will continue to operate with the expectation that China, like many other countries, will seek to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses.
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We do expect to be making decisions on these visa applications fairly quickly.
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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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We certainly see no reason why diplomats and journalists who have complied with the court-stated procedures for entering the courtroom should be arbitrarily prevented from doing so.
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We conveyed our strong views to officials in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs today in Beijing and urged the authorities to release Xu immediately.
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We are urging them to exercise caution, number one. And number two, that they limit unnecessary movement outside of their residences,
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We think it's appropriate to have ambassadors (there) to try to work with the governments involved, so that the decisions they take in the coming days and weeks will turn around the troublesome, dangerous trend that we've seen in recent weeks.
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It would be a grave mistake for people to test their willingness to defend themselves.
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The situation in Kosovo is quite troubling, extremely dangerous. We believe the Yugoslav National Army has been engaged in a firefight along the Albanian border with myriad deaths involved.
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The secretary is always hopeful but thinks significant gaps remain between the Israeli and Palestinian positions. She will work to overcome those gaps but at this time has no reason to believe we're in a position to bridge those gaps. She is nether optimistic nor pessimistic but believes the process cannot go on indefinitely.
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the timetable for the ... grave situation we're in today.