John Negroponte
John Negroponte
John Dimitri Negroponteis a British-born American diplomat of Greek descent. He is currently a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Prior to this appointment, he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State, and the first ever Director of National Intelligence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDiplomat
Date of Birth21 July 1939
CountryUnited States of America
hastens the day when the people of Iraq are in full command of their own affairs.
I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.
Just in the (intelligence) collection area, that's an example of the type of accomplishments that we have achieved in this very short period of time.
I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua across Honduran test, territory destined for El Salvador and I think that some of that equipment had been also to Cuba and the Soviet bloc.
We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.
I certainly believe America is safer since 9/11. And I believe from an intelligence point of view that our intelligence effort is better integrated today than it was previously.
a good framework for the international community to support the people of Iraq in the creation of a stable and secure society.
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.
Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.