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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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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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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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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Russia's treatment of Mr. Pope since his arrest raises serious concerns about the safety and security of American business travelers in Russia and about our ability to protect the health and welfare of American citizens who may be traveling or living in Russia.
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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 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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But that of course is insufficient. What we want is access so that we can make those determinations ourselves.
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The Philippines deserves full credit for this successful outcome.
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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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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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They went over what the president has outlined as our goals for Afghanistan.
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It really remains vital that press freedoms be preserved to the greatest extent possible, consistent, obviously, with the need to protect the security of military operations.