Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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It is a unique deal for India. Despite our friendship for Pakistan, there have been proliferation problems of a quite serious nature over the last several years that would make this kind of deal impossible.
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Our judgement is that it would not be wise or fair to ask Congress to make such a consequential decision without evidence that the Indian government was acting on what is arguably the most important of its commitments--the separation of its civilian and military facilities
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John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.
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I think that will also be a key way for Serbia to escape its past. If Serbia wants to look forward, it has to look backward in order to atone for its mistakes of the 1990s.
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Out administration is fully committed to the India-US civilian nuclear energy agreement,
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Part of the purpose of my visit to Delhi this week is to work with the Indian government on a plan that would separate the civil and military nuclear states of India over the coming years, ... Once that plan has been clearly enunciated and once it has been committed to by the Indian government and we begin to see its implementation, it will be a short time before the U.S. Congress enacts the necessary legislative changes to bring this into being, and that will be a welcome moment, indeed.
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We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.
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He gave a pardon to his son-in-law and then had him executed. He tried to make up with the Iraqi Kurds five years ago, and then tried to destroy them.
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There is a historic opportunity for the people of Kosovo now to define their own future,
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There is a great deal of frustration in the United States that this problem has not been resolved after such a long time.
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There is no deal yet, and there remains the need for additional movement and additional work by both the Israelis and Palestinians before there can be a deal.
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There is more of a relationship (between Netanyahu and Arafat) now than there was before,
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We're prepared for that debate. We will advise the Congress that it is our very clear judgment that this is a good deal for the United States as well as for India.
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Our message is clear as a bell to the American private community ... Get out of Zaire before you find yourself in harm's way.