Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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We are working with a wide range of countries, not just the EU-3, but all the members of the IAEA and a lot of other countries around the world, to try to create an environment where the Iranians hear one message,
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We very much hope that these sanctions will not be implemented bluntly in a way that would be damaging to the Iranian people, but it is going to be sanctions that will get the attention of the Iranian government.
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We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.
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This is not the time for business as usual with the Iranian government.
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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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We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.
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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,
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We are very disappointed that general Mladic is not yet given up to the Hague,
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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,
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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,
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It was the only positive development I can point to.