Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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We believe the resulting agreement (with India) advances our strategic partnership and is a net gain for non-proliferation. We do not plan to offer such cooperation to any other country.
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We're not there yet. We don't have an agreement yet, ... But I'm confident that they're heading in that direction.
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These two individuals are standing in the way of Serbia's progress with NATO and the United States as well as with Europe.
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I just can't talk about what ideas we may be considering. We want to have some quiet diplomacy the next couple of days.
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None of the participants have a veto power and certainly the sponsors of the talks do not have the veto power, ... Compromise will be the basis for the solution.
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The job we have is to be a good friend of Ukraine and support the reforms and to encourage private investment and have them work with us on the security issues that are so important for the world,
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the message from my government to the Haitian government is that they need to work with much greater speed and much greater efficiency in organizing these elections.
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That is a signal both to the United States and to the rest of the international community that this move by the Indian government is permanent. It's going to be sustainable and it's not going to be taken back.
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That remains our plan. And I've been in touch with the Indian government this week. I expect to be in touch with them in the coming days, and we hope to reach that goal.
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It's clear the situation in the Middle East remains dangerous and requires intensive and productive efforts.
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It is the strong hope of the United States that Japan will decide to maintain its troops in Iraq beyond December of this year,
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contribute to reducing the tensions that are so evident.
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Everything in the documents that have been passed over to the parties on Thursday and Friday ... had been talked about in advance, ... Everything had been negotiated in advance, ... including the question of the makeup of the future government.
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Every country in these meetings said that some type of action had to be taken. All of us want to take one collective, multilateral action in New York at the Security Council.