Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
documents friday future including makeup parties passed question talked thursday
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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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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This is an historic opportunity to shape the future of the country. ... We call on the new leadership to establish an inclusive transitional government leading to elections, and to ensure full respect for human rights throughout the country.
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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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This is the first time we are saying publicly that the future of the relationship is not adversarial, not rivalry... it's partnership.
nations united welcome
We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.
itself parties tactic threat violence
We implore the parties to these negotiations not to use intimidation or the threat of violence, or violence itself as a tactic in the negotiations,
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We certainly were given an impression (during my last visit in June) that the arrest of general Mladic was imminent and it did not happen, so we have to judge the Serb government on its actions,
general given
We are very disappointed that general Mladic is not yet given up to the Hague,
adding agreement clear conditions expect government indian
We are very clear in our administration ... this agreement has not changed. We are not adding any conditions that we expect the Indian government to meet,
highly ought welcomed
We think it's a highly significant appointment which ought to be welcomed by the detractors of our president's policy.
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We see a possibility of creating with India one of the two or three or four strategic relationships we have with anyone in the world.
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I've pledged to all of my Japanese interlocutors over the last two days that we would work with them over the next several months to see if it's possible to fashion a plan that would receive General Assembly support in New York, so that Japan could enter the Security Council as a permanent member,
point positive
It was the only positive development I can point to.