Melissa Fleming Quotes (20 Quotes)

Once this resolution is passed, a tougher stage will begin and we will see what effect the board of governors' calls on Iran will have.

matter of weeks and no longer.

This will certainly give him more leverage and credibility. It will be much harder to refuse to listen.

We have expressed clearly to the North Koreans that we expect there will be monitoring of their nuclear activities, and we hope that they will reconsider.

a number of questions, a number of outstanding issues on very specific technical matters -- but significant ones -- that need to be cleared up.

We have accepted this invitation to go to Baghdad with the clear expectation of action that needs to be taken by Iraq prior to the visit.

One would have to assume it's been stolen by someone who has some sort of nefarious purpose for it.

Our immediate concern is that if the explosives did fall into the wrong hands they could be used to commit terrorist acts and some of the bombings that we've seen.

He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

We're going to scour through this document word for word, and we're going to check it against declarations we've received in the past,

It's obviously a unilateral decision on Iran's part, taken despite repeated requests from the board of governors to maintain a full suspension.

The meeting today was supposed to be about the clarification of Iran's 'RD' (research and development) intentions in restarting their nuclear program.

This is a real massive quantity of explosives that could have reached the hands of insurgents and could be used with deadly force and consequences against people in Iraq,

We are ready to go back immediately. We have been ready for the past four years. We are looking for co-operation in all respects -- unconditional and unrestricted -- for our inspectors.

We're not in the position at all to make any kinds of judgment on this document -- truth or no truth. We're in a good position to be able to assess the document in due time against vast amounts of information we have and against what our inspectors can go out and look for on the ground.

The resolution on Iran was just adopted without a vote by consensus, full consensus. All 35 members of the board agreed the language of the resolution text.

We decided to focus on countries that have a big nuclear program.

It was very clear from our analysis that they were forgeries. We found 20 to 30 anomalies within a day.

We've answered that request by saying it would take us more than a week to put our surveillance equipment in place, asked them to refrain from removing any of the seals that would enable us to make sure the equipment hasn't been touched.

We are awaiting the green light from the U.N. Security Council to tell us what are the next steps,