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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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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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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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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If North Korea is looking gain the support of the U.S., this is not the way to do it.
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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 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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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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The United States will continue to engage and support the Haitian people in pursuing our mutual interests, which include strengthening democracy, improving respect for human rights, eliminating poverty, stemming the flow of drugs through Haiti to the United States and addressing sources of illegal migration.
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This is a matter of extreme seriousness. The sanctity of diplomatic personages is very important to us as well as the international community and must be upheld. No determination has yet been made as to precisely what happened or whose forces were involved. We are trying to establish these facts.
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The secretary reiterated what we have said before. We are not seeking to escalate this problem, but we are not going to give in to blackmail.
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But that of course is insufficient. What we want is access so that we can make those determinations ourselves.
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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.