John Bolton
John Bolton
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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The United States believes that the long-standing, massive and covert Iranian effort to acquire sensitive nuclear capabilities makes sense only as part of a nuclear weapons program,
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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.
bring intended iranian nuclear policies reducing result role truly weapons
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.
mass-destruction iran cynical
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.
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If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.
iran doubt weapons
There's no doubt that Iran funds and supplies Hamas with weapons.
iran nuclear weapons
The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.
address challenges expansion large peace quickly risk unable
Too large an expansion would risk making it (the council) unable to quickly address challenges to international peace and security.
support work
We will work to get the broadest support we can,
acted council felt including kingdom security send united waiting
We felt that if the Security Council acted without waiting for the AU, it would send the AU a signal. But no other country, including the United Kingdom and France, was with us on that. We think that's too bad.
meets secretary standards
We don't think it meets the standards set by the secretary general.
certainly continued full push resolution
We certainly see a resolution that continued to push for full implementation of 1559,
among certainly five hoping move permanent prepared unanimity
We certainly are hoping for unanimity among the five permanent members. But unanimity or not, we are prepared to move forward.
draft last produced
We are very disappointed with the draft that was produced last Thursday. We don't think it's acceptable.