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 believe it's important to act now to reinforce the progress that has already taken place.
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The Philippines deserves full credit for this successful outcome.
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We urge India and Pakistan to continue to act responsibly to avoid a conflict that can have no good result on either side.
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We urge all parties there to work together to maintain peace, support the constitution and promote national reconciliation.
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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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But that of course is insufficient. What we want is access so that we can make those determinations ourselves.
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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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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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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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Inter-Korean dialogue is the key to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.