More - Nicholas Burns Quotes

I can tell you in Washington we have no better partner right now on most of these issues that occupy the Security Council... than the French government.

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There is not going to be a rupture in U.S.-Mexican relations.

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The United States position on war criminals is uncompromising. We will not support Bosnia-Herzegovina or Serbia-Montenegro in NATO's Partnership for Peace [program] until this problem is resolved. It's that simple,

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 Support

agreement to a timetable that will lead to decisions in the US Congress to change our law and the ultimate decision of the Indian government to meet their commitments.

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 Agreement

We strongly regret the measures taken by the parliament and government today to, in effect, introduce a state of emergency and to introduce censorship of the Albanian press.

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 Government

It's a waiver authority ... We are not seeking relief from US law for any country in the world except India and we don't anticipate putting any country forward. So it is India specific.

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 Authority

It's hard to remember a more vicious terrorist insurgency than this one, a more cynical group than these Islamic terrorists. They deserve special criticism and condemnation by the world community for these despicable acts.

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Russia has to be part of the solution to this problem. And I think Russia will be. We haven't come to the end of our talks with Russia and other countries on this.

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 Russia

We're not there yet. We don't have an agreement yet, ... But I'm confident that they're heading in that direction.

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 Agreement

there has to be a graduated series of steps to bring Iran back to a position of negotiations and suspension of its nuclear activities.

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