Richard Holbrooke
Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrookewas an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, professor, Peace Corps official, and investment banker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth24 April 1941
CountryUnited States of America
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The status quo is stable, but it won't be stable forever,
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The situation therefore remains fully as serious today as it was a week or two ago. We hope to make clear to President Milosevic and the people of Yugoslavia the extreme gravity of the situation.
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The situation is as serious now -- perhaps more serious -- than it was in October,
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These contacts were designed to find out if the people with whom the American officials met were in fact people who have the ability to influence and control all the people with the weapons.
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If we don't have full and verifiable compliance, the United States will take a very strong position in favor of resuming the air strikes.
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one of the worst of the people in the region -- a racist, a separatist, a war criminal ...
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I am satisfied that every one of the worst-case scenarios was wrong. Total NATO deaths from hostile action in Bosnia since Dayton have been zero.
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Nothing is changed. The situation is very serious.
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On Monday, NATO will meet to authorize action.
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I would be misleading you if I suggested that today's talks resulted in any significant or substantial change of the situation.
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I would be misleading you if I suggested that (Monday's) talks resulted in any substantial change in the situation.
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I would be misleading you if I suggested that (a first round of) talks resulted in any substantial change in the situation.
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Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.
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I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.