John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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This is a moment of crisis for the United Nations. If we don't get serious reform, it's going to put us in a very difficult position, It's now two months since the end of the September summit and we have essentially not made progress since that point. We've got a lot of work to do and there's not a lot of time to do it
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North Korea today faces a choice, ... If North Korea wants to have a brighter future, it needs to fundamentally shift the way it operates at home and abroad.
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Addressing these issues now will facilitate continued international support for Iraq's security, and it will give the newly elected Iraqi government time to assume office, address constitutional questions and consolidate its authority before confronting issues such as those addressed in this resolution.
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After an initial read, the results are clearly troubling and will require further discussion with the international community.
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are not that dissimilar to changes that we've been talking about here at the U.N. for months.
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I've been an executive branch official my entire public career and, for both constitutional and historical reasons, the executive branch appropriately has typically opposed automatic, non-discretionary directions from all of you esteemed ladies and gentlemen. That's our position. I support it emphatically.
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Sanctions were put in before, it's not clear they're being adhered to, ... The question (is) whether we should do something else in that area in terms of arms into the country.
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Quite some time ago the president said unequivocally we support the development goals in the millennium summit declaration, ... Now that's different from the goals that were actually written by the secretariat. There is no backing away by the United States in the support for the millennium summit declaration.
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I would describe today's meeting as the best we've had so far.
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If the Security Council can't deal with something like the Iranian nuclear weapons program, then it's hard to imagine what circumstances the (UN) Charter contemplated the Council would be involved in.
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My instructions and my intentions are very clear: which is to move as far and as fast as we can during the month of February.
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I am telling people loosen your ties, fire up the coffee pots, get ready for the weekend, ... We've got a lot of work to do.
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Policies intended to bring about the termination of the Iranian and (North Korean) nuclear weapons programs, which result in reducing the council's role under the (U.N.) Charter, would truly be unfortunate and ironic.
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What I do every morning is get up and ask myself how I'm going to advance the interests and values of the United States.