Richard Boucher
Richard Boucher
Richard A. Boucheris an American diplomat who was Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmentfrom 2009 until 2013. He took up post on 5 November 2009. Prior to joining OECD, he was the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, a post he took up on February 21, 2006. The Bureau of South Asian Affairs was expanded to include the nations of Central Asia shortly before his confirmation...
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Naturally we're concerned that Somalia might become a safe haven, but that's a long distance from saying it's on a target list.
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Obviously Turkey shares our concern about making sure that Iraq doesn't get anything that could further a program of weapons of mass destruction or be possibly involved with making it easier for Iraq to use weapons of mass destruction as they have before.
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It's only North Korea that claims current conditions are unfavorable
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It's not the solution yet. ... They know quite clearly what needs to be done, and we'll tell you if they get there.
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It's long been our position that cooperation between members of the Colombian armed forces and the paramilitary groups is unacceptable, and we welcome this decision by the courts,
It's part of our policy. It hasn't changed.
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noted that President Bush has consistently pursued a diplomatic approach, despite North Korean threats and steps in the wrong direction.
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It's very, very important to continue moving toward open elections, clean elections, next year. The secretary made that quite clear.
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That makes it important to keep their channels of direct communication open.
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That process needs to be respected by all Haitians, but we're glad to see the violence is decreasing. But the rebels have no role to play in this process, and they need to lay down their arms and go home.
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Each post will look at its security posture and reopen at an appropriate time.
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It may take a few months, maybe a year (to begin implementation).
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It's a big border and bad guys try to come across. The question is what we, in cooperation with the Canadian government, can do to make both our countries safer.
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It was somewhere along the chain a mistranslation of what the Chinese foreign minister spokesman said, which amounts to that the judicial process was under way,