Pamela Falk Quotes (23 Quotes)

With Iranian leaders increasing threats and defiance, a lot is resting on a meeting Tuesday in Moscow with the six major world powers to try to stop Iran from continuing its nuclear program. The U. N. deadline is 10 days away and there is little agreement on next steps.

takes the pressure off the United Nations with regard to North Korea and avoids a contentious debate about sanctions at a time when talks with North Korea had stalled.

Enrichment is a technology benchmark for development of nuclear weapons. This is likely to keep the world powers unified in their effort to stop Iran but it does not mean Iran will produce weapons anytime soon.

Marathon negotiations along with implicit threats produced a result, ... allowing the first Muslim nation to begin a ten to fifteen year process for full membership in the European Union.

The advantage of having all the Heads of State in a three-day summit in this General Assembly session was a great advantage over previous U. N. meetings, ... because of the ability to have so many bilateral meetings.

With immigration on the front burner, this is probably President Bush's last best shot at getting the immigration reform through that he and Mexico's President Vicente Fox proposed five years ago, when they both were first elected.

There still is a lot of negotiating that will have to be completed in November, including the specifics of the agreements and time frames. But in essence, North Korea has agreed to end its existing nuclear weapons and ongoing development and to include inspections in exchange for a U. S. agreement not to invade or attack North Korea and to gradually normalize relations.

It is likely there will be a presidential statement. It's not binding, and the Security Council doesn't have to vote.

Iran is desperately trying to avert crippling sanctions and keep its nuclear power program. That appears to involve disclosing that it may have broken some rules along the way.

with North Korea reneging on a key issue of the new disarmament agreement, U. S. negotiators are trying to keep the six-party talks going because nuclear brinksmanship makes all nations nervous.

Surely, the reports will spur debate about U. S. military action against Iran, particularly since U. S.-Iran talks regarding Iraq are tentatively scheduled for mid-April and because U. S. military action would be opposed by most world leaders.

Secretary of State Rice made clear in her remarks that the U. S. favors a referral of Iran to the Security Council for sanctions if negotiations fail, ... because the Bush Administration suspects that Irans uranium enrichment program is a nuclear weapons program, but the resistance from Russia and China to vote for sanctions, may undermine a U. S. referral.

The reality of European resistance to Turkey's membership in the European Union is precisely what Turkey fears, that is, the entry of a poor and highly populated Muslim state, ... But the government in Ankara is determined to get full membership and nothing short of that.

Irans threats to hide its nuclear program are unlikely to have as much of an impact as the fear that Iran will misuse its nuclear technology and the soaring price of oil that has resulted from the crisis. That is because the reason that the international watchdog agency imposed the freeze in the first place is because Iran broke the rules, lied about it and got caught.

Foreign Minister Lavrov was clear that Russia remains committed to non proliferation and any Russian compromise proposals are within that context.

With confidence in a unified Iraqi state at a low ebb, ... there is a lot resting on the referendum to replace insurgency with political participation.

Although Russia and China have resisted the strong language of the U.N. resolution, the vote is expected to pass,

With the polls open and insurgent attacks in parts of Baghdad, the measure of success of the referendum will depend in part on Sunni participation in the vote,

Syrian officials have been accused of involvement in the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister and of continued funding of Palestinian militants in Lebanon, ... so the vote Monday is the first in several steps expected to seriously pressure Syria.

The breakthrough agreement with North Korea not only diffuses a two-year stalemate but holds out the hope that Pyongyang will return to its international treaty obligations,

They are designed to galvanize support from his sympathizers in Iraq and used as a diversion from the riveting testimony of victims.

The most important aspect of the trial is that it is perceived to be fair and not merely 'victor's justice' but rather have internationally accepted procedures. The prosecution will have to avoid the pitfall of allowing the trial to be a vehicle for Saddam Hussein to speak publicly and create a voice in Iraqi politics.

Historically there have been compensation programs, not restitution. In other words money, not give them back the property. And that's most likely what's going to happen.