Discussions continue, we're making progress. I think I'd leave it at that. |
Do they still seek to influence and intimidate Lebanese politicians and political life in Lebanon? Absolutely. |
Does Syria not care that young guys from Yemen or Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or Iran come into Damascus airport with a one-way ticket and no job and no place to stay and then find their way into Iraq where they strap bombs to themselves and blow themselves up and kill children in a market? Women and children in front of a market? |
Every country is obviously free to decide what it wants to do. |
Food is a scarce commodity. When it's a scarce commodity it has a value. And there are those who seek to exploit that value for purposes for which the aid is not intended. And that's why monitoring is so important. |
for his courtesy and convenience, and that is because he is a former Cabinet official. |
Frankly, that's one of the reasons why, after having tried to resolve this issue through negotiations and through a good and reasonable proposal from Russia, we're having to go to the Security Council. |
Given that rate of abstention, plus expressions of concern by prominent Venezuelans, we would see that this reflects a broad lack of confidence in the impartiality and transparency of the electoral process. |
He is a member of the government of Iraq and an official of the government of Iraq, and there are things that are important for us to talk about with him. |
He is an official and a representative of the government of Iraq. |
He is not traveling as an official representative of the United States, and he is not carrying a message on behalf of the government of the United States. |
helped forge compromises when gaps needed to be bridged. |
His capture is an important step in confronting extremism in Bangladesh. |
I don't really have more to add to the statement. It's important that Taiwan unambiguously clarify its position. |
I don't see the connection, frankly. |