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
Globalization is causing a shift of momentum and energy to greater Asia, where China has steadily expanding reach and may become a peer competitor to the United States at some point.
We think it deserves strong support, ... A couple of other delegations offered to co-sponsor it.
I've been very reluctant to get into numbers.
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.
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.
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.
Growing suspicions about Western intentions and Moscow's desire to demonstrate its independence and defend its own interests may make it harder to cooperate with Russia on areas of concern to the United States.
I am confident that with the creation of the NCS, the U.S. government will have a more cohesive and truly national human intelligence capability.
No one has really slammed the door shut on our proposals, and it was on that basis that we came to the conclusion that we should allow for the opportunity for these discussions to continue next week,
The organization's core elements still plot and make preparations for terrorist strikes against the homeland and other targets from bases in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.
We're not quite yet in a position to do that because there's been both a lot of work being done on it in Washington, plus we've been having consultations with some of the other key members of the council in capitals,
We assessed the threat to U.S. national security posed by DP World to be low. In other words, we didn't see any red flags come up during the course of our inquiry.
We assessed the threat to U.S. national security posed by DP World to be low.
The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.