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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But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.
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Secretary Albright just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and they agreed to meet here in Washington on Wednesday to discuss ways in which we can overcome remaining differences
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If, as a result of Prime Minister Blair's meetings in the region, the leaders are willing to make hard decisions they've been heretofore unwilling to make, that will be a good thing.
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We hope that as a result of the kind of meeting we're trying to arrange, that the various permanent members of the council can bring to bear some leverage and turn this process around before it's too late.
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will meet with Serb and Kosovo Albanian leaders and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), and will visit sites in the Kosovo countryside where alleged human rights violations have occurred.
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The feeling is that those meetings have been sufficiently good and constructive that they have ... superseded committee meetings.
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As far as we're concerned, there still are very significant and difficult roadblocks to restarting the peace process. Hopefully we'll be able to clear away some of those roadblocks in Secretary Albright's meetings in London.
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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.