Philip Reeker
Philip Reeker
Philip Thomas Reekeris an American diplomat and career foreign service officer with the Department of State. He currently serves as U.S. Consul General in Milan, Italy as of September 5th, 2014. He previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2011 through 2013. and as the ambassador to Macedonia from 2008 to 2011...
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We haven't made any decisions, in terms of announcements or any other forward moving there. I've described for you our goals and the road map. And I can't give you any more dates. It's something we're still looking at.
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What we're doing is focusing on trying to resolve the issues, trying to resolve what we call freedom of travel disputes that involve U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia. And we're going to keep up that effort.
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Responsibility for remedying electoral flaws still resides with Haitian authorities.
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Our policy toward Iran has not changed. The president has said we will be looking for indications that countries do want to change. But ... we've had long-standing concerns.
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We are determined ... to develop as broad a campaign against international terrorism as possible. And a positive Iranian role in this effort would obviously contribute to our goal of promoting peace and stability, and increasing our security.
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It's provocative. We've asked both the Israelis and the Palestinians to refrain from provocative acts. That's why we are questioning ... why they would approve a wide range of settlement activity that includes construction of additional housing structures and infrastructure.
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It's our expectation that the secretary-general's mission ... will examine all the circumstances leading to the recent events in Venezuela.
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I'm not going to try to determine what steps the Israelis may or may not take or how they should take it. What we want to see is action to end the terrorism. We've called for that. Chairman Arafat's made statements. He needs to follow through on those statements. He can do more.
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Inflammatory statements such as those attributed to President Chavez are not helpful in advancing the dialogue between the government of Venezuela and the opposition.
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The lack of accreditation and the government of Zimbabwe's limitation on observer access will detract from the credibility of the elections.
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They went over what the president has outlined as our goals for Afghanistan.
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We are very pleased with the progress that we've had. We are working together with the Yemenis on all aspects of the case, and we think it is proceeding very well.
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We want all of these things to happen now. The time is now for a cease-fire and the start of Tenet.
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As Secretary Powell has always said, he and Deputy Secretary Armitage serve at the pleasure of the president and will continue to do so.