Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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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.
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Ten years is a long time for a country to be under international stewardship, and it is time now to diminish the powers
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This is a pressure cooker and people are not going to tolerate another five years of not knowing who they are, what country they live in and what their future is.
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It's a waiver authority ... We are not seeking relief from US law for any country in the world except India and we don't anticipate putting any country forward. So it is India specific.
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We are convinced that this deal is in our national interest. And the greatest advantage is that it takes a country that is outside the international non-proliferation regime and begins to bring it ... into conformity with the practices of that regime,
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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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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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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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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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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,