Nicholas Burns
Nicholas Burns
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We strongly regret the measures taken by the parliament and government today to, in effect, introduce a state of emergency and to introduce censorship of the Albanian press.
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While not formally part of the NPT regime, India has demonstrated a strong commitment to protect fissile materials and nuclear technology...India has resisted proposal for nuclear cooperation with nuclear aspirants that could have had adverse implications for international security,
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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 United States strongly condemns the violence by the Serbian police against the demonstrators who, by all accounts, have demonstrated peacefully.
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The United States is sending a strong signal to all the parties that the United States wants the Dayton accords fully implemented.
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This was an extraordinarily difficult process, ... This is not the end of the reform effort, it really is the beginning of a permanent reform effort that must be under way at the United Nations.
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There are issues that we have to resolve before we can have a final agreement. That may take some time.... I don't know how much longer it will take. It could take several days. We have to see how it happens.
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When (Christopher) travels to the Balkans late next week and into the following week, he'll be making his point personally. And by then we expect that all prisoners will have been released.
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There is significant support for it on the Capitol Hill. There may be some Congressmen who have doubts about it. But I am convinced that the US Congress will support the agreement,
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We fully expect that the IAEA will refer this issue to the United Nations Security Council, where it should be,
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We fully expect that the governments of the IAEA will exercise their responsibility,
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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,