It's not related to the six-party talks. |
It's not related to the six-party talks. We think that regardless of this briefing, and regardless of anything else, that the North Koreans ought to come back to those talks as soon as is possible. |
Right now, our main focus is on continuing the good work that we've done with the Saudi government and moving forward in our relationship under the new Saudi leadership. |
seamless end-to-end connections to ... customers from Europe to North and South America to Asia. |
The Chinese have been doing, we think, an outstanding job of trying to move forward on this process. |
The main point for us is that the U.S. and Russia have an active and constructive dialogue on a broad agenda of priority issues. Certainly we're cooperating well with them on counterterrorism issues, on proliferation issues ... and on a variety of other areas as well. |
The monitors worked on a rotation basis and the Americans did not happen to be on this morning. |
The president is the head of the constitutional government in Mauritania. |
The Security Council will choose at what particular moment it wants to address this issue. |
The United States calls again on the Belarusian government to cease repression of political campaigns and civil society groups, and to respect the rights of Belarusian citizens. |
The United States joins the African Union in condemning the overthrow of the government of Mauritania. And we oppose any attempts by rogue elements to change governments through extraconstitutional or violent means. |
The United States reiterates its continued support for the Tribunal and its work. |
There are areas where we differ and we think we can have a frank and candid exchange of views with them on those subjects. And we're certainly going to continue to make clear our concerns about those areas where we do have problems. |
There are no outside political considerations affecting these decisions. |
There is no obstacle to that discussion being taken up and we certainly believe that will happen shortly. |