Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
ability absolutely community continue girls lend normal policies restrict women
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.
believe government heard indian last word
I don't believe we've heard the last word from the Indian government
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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.
pressure
We are going to ratchet up the pressure step-by-step.
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India is not going to formally join the entire apparatus. But it will begin to bring responsible practice in accordance with that regime. That's a step forward for the US and for non-proliferation.
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India is a major power in Asia... one of our critical partners, not just in South Asia but in Asia.
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I do not anticipate, and I'm 100 percent sure about this, any contact between whichever official is sent by the Iranian government and our delegation, including Secretary Rice.
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I believe it is a good and sound agreement that will have the effect of progressively integrating India into the global nonproliferation order,
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In this very complex, globalized world, despite the power of the United States, we cannot go it alone, ... We do have to work through multilateral institutions. Each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses. The United Nations has both.
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agreement to a timetable that will lead to decisions in the US Congress to change our law and the ultimate decision of the Indian government to meet their commitments.
mark relations since
the high-water mark of US-India relations since 1947.
among cases gaps issues major open peace remain talks
All the major issues in these peace talks remain open issues and by that, I mean, there are still in some cases significant divisions, significant disagreements and significant gaps among the parties,
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All I can say is this -- when we deploy, we want it to be to preserve a peace that has been agreed to,
achieve again agreement complex risk
This is a complex agreement. To reopen it, we're probably at risk of never being able to achieve it again and to reassemble it.