The United States believes that the long-standing, massive and covert Iranian effort to acquire sensitive nuclear capabilities makes sense only as part of a nuclear weapons program, |
The United States is very pleased at the council's unanimous adoption |
the world's foremost peddler of ballistic missile-related equipment, components, materials, and technical expertise. |
Their threats show why leaving a country like that with a nuclear weapon is so dangerous. |
There are a lot of different ideas, ... We have a lot of work to do. ... But I think this is going to be an open, transparent process, and we'll work as late as we need to and see if we can come up with a strong outcome document. |
there is no such thing as the United Nations. |
there is still much work to be done on that front. |
There may be an occasion that we want the U.N. to properly run a program like this. |
There were bribes; there were kickbacks; there was lax oversight from the secretariat; and some member states turned a blind eye toward this corruption, ... We need to reform the U.N. in a manner that will prevent another oil-for-food scandal. |
There were bribes; there were kickbacks; there was lax oversight from the Secretariat; and some member states turned a blind eye toward this corruption. |
There's a lot of important work. It's a very busy schedule in the first couple of days, and I think it's been productive and I'm certainly enjoying myself. |
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. |
They want to conduct this trial under their own national authorities, and I think the people who have undertaken these terrorist assassinations obviously are trying to undercut the Iraqi judicial institutions, |
This cannot be seen as simply an American initiative, |
This draft certainly does not live up to the expectations set by the secretary-general when he launched the process. And I don't think anybody claims that, and, in fact, the strongest argument in favor of this draft is that it's not as bad as it could be. |