Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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We hope that the Afghan constitution is going to be upheld and in our view, if it's upheld, then of course he'll be found to be innocent.
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We hoped they (Chinese officials) would be aggressive in acting to halt the sales, ... but I can't say I have any evidence.
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We hope and we trust that that deal will not go forward.
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We're calling for their immediate release. We are making this known privately to the Bosnian Serb military commanders, and we're now making it known privately just in the next couple of hours to President Milosevic in Belgrade, and we very much expect that this call for the immediate release of these people will be met.
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We have to respect the prerogatives of Congress but we are suggesting India-specific amendments to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
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The actions India committed to undertake are difficult, complex and time consuming,
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To consign it (India) to a place outside that system did not appear to be strategically wise, and has not proven effective,
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What you have now, 10 years after Dayton is, frankly speaking, an abnormal situation with the tri-presidency and with the entities controlling so much of the national life of this country,
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I can tell you in Washington we have no better partner right now on most of these issues that occupy the Security Council... than the French government.
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I don't think anyone would take a country into NATO that had a major territorial dispute within it, in the heart of it, that had not resolved this huge question on the future of Kosovo, ... I don't think there's any possibility of that happening.
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I don't believe we've heard the last word from the Indian government
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If we're to maintain our position as a global power, we need a power like India.
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If we continue to see policies that absolutely restrict the right of women and girls to be normal people, it will have an effect... on the ability of the international community to lend and to give assistance.
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Obviously the Pakistani government isn't thrilled with this relationship, and they've said that publicly.