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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we felt that there were indeed concerns ... our posts in the region, and this region including Yemen, have been on a high state of alert for a long time since the Africa bombings,and in connection with recent events we have asked posts to look very closely at their security procedures.
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The United States is involved, has been involved, will remain involved in doing whatever we can to help these two governments lessen the tension.
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We do think it's a rather dubious distinction to be the first democratically elected head of state to go meet with the dictator of Iraq
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Ms Tanaka said she understood the need for the United States to pursue this area, to conduct the research,
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We'll have to work out mechanisms in the agreement -- work out a framework in the resolution or some other mechanism, ... So that these states are allowed to continue to do what they need to do vis-a-vis their trade with Iraq, and particularly in civilian goods for the people of Iraq.
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We call upon the government to disavow the statements made by the military to ensure that elections are free and fair.
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Unfortunately, in addition to these wild charges and ridiculous statements that we've seen, we haven't seen any concrete progress on reversing the negative trends,
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Both the United States and Pakistan are committed to identifying the perpetrators of the crime and bringing them to justice.
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whether or not he violated the Department of State security standards.
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What this does is it brings a common view, a unified message, a unified position of the United States and Europe,
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We've been working with both those governments to try to see if we can't use the excellent relations that they each have with the United States to contribute in some way to an easing of the tensions.
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the United States will respect decisions of the sovereign Iraqi government regarding the presence of the multinational force.
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The United States will ensure that responses to this reward notice will be kept in strict confidence, ... Individuals providing information leading to the arrest or conviction of those responsible for the attack on the USS Cole may be eligible for protection of their identities and relocation with their families to the United States.
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The United States regrets the resignation of David Trimble.