Richard Boucher Quotes (270 Quotes)

We hope this list will help to isolate these terrorist organizations ... and to prevent their members' movement across international borders.

all credible efforts to bring violators of the international humanitarian law to account.

Reconstruction work is not possible while the fighting is going on or while the insurgents have been in charge of the town. But once it's back in government hands, we'll be able to get on with these projects very quickly.

Any Iraqi orders for more atropine than needed to meet normal humanitarian requirements would be of concern since that could indicate preparations to use chemical weapons by preparing to protect their own forces from the consequences of such use,

So it's an open question as to whether one will be able to say that they got a fair trial or not, particularly given what we know about the Chinese legal system.

Naturally we're concerned that Somalia might become a safe haven, but that's a long distance from saying it's on a target list.

There is, again, credible information about a threat to the embassy compound.

The secretary made quite clear that our goal is to have the smallest footprint possible that was consistent with a need to achieve the mission,

Syria maintains a sizable presence of military and intelligence officials in Lebanon in contravention of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559,

We have embarked upon building a global strategic partnership with India. President (George W Bush) will be travelling to India in the coming weeks to continue a strong, forward looking relationship with this rising global power.

reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

They had good, extensive discussions of Iraq's refusal to disarm and the council's response to deal with this danger. They discussed various ideas about resolution including possible changes in text.

We urge all parties to fully honor the agreements negotiated by NATO and the European Union,

There is a common problem extending control in border areas. Common geography makes it difficult. It is not an easy place to police.

The United States supports the development of fully sovereign, democratic and prosperous nations in Central Asia, cooperating with America and with one another to advance regional security and stability. Our strategy rests on three integrated pillars security cooperation our commercial and energy interests and political and economic reform.

In our contacts with Pakistan, we've also made clear that we think that they need to address terrorist activities within their borders, especially the activities of militant groups,

We've made clear we're looking at the policy with regard to North Korea, that it's policy that will be built on the work that's been done before and the commitments that have been made before.

We would expect a retraction from the Libyan government,

utmost restraint to avoid harm to civilians.

We think it's clear that Iran has not made any strategic decision to abandon a nuclear weapons effort.

looking at ways to provide additional immediate support to the Macedonian Government.

We all know that these various individuals involved in this armed violence, many of them have a very unsavory history, to say the least. We do not believe that those people are welcome in the political process.

The parties have not agreed on any other basis for final status talks at this point, ... So, we'll be talking to the parties, and we will consult with them. We'll have a better idea at that point how we can best assist them to achieve peace.

We strongly urged those involved to release the arrested government officials.

the continued presence and operational activities of international terrorist groups, and of the Iranian regime on and through Syrian territory, and the use of Syrian territory by the Iraqi insurgency.

North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons is a matter of great concern to the entire international community, and especially to countries in the region, all of whom are interested in participating directly in the talks.

We support the emergence of China in the region and on the world stage in many areas, as it's doing, ... we also expect China to play by the rules, to adopt the various standards of conduct that other responsible international players use.

When we see Israel suffering these horrible bombings, when we see this kind of violence threatening once again to make progress more difficult, we're keeping in touch with the other players.

We have raised with China our specific concerns about reports of fiber-optic cables and telecommunications projects in Iraq.

The issue is Iraqi compliance with a series of U.N. resolutions that specify that they won't develop weapons of mass destruction, that they'll destroy what they had, and in a variety of other ways that they're not going to threaten their own people and cause danger to the region again.

We reject any criticism, any allegations that our human rights efforts have diminished.

We expect meetings into the night.

We do think it's a rather dubious distinction to be the first democratically elected head of state to go meet with the dictator of Iraq

We have been aware for some time of North Korea's illicit activities,

I have not seen anything that would--any evidence of that--that would corroborate that. There's certainly violence there that needs to be dealt with but there are also political and economic problems that sort of underlie the problem--the violence.

It's absolutely imperative that Chairman Arafat and the Palestinian Authority act immediately, undertake all possible measures to pursue and apprehend those responsible for these horrific actions, and ensure that the organizations responsible are unable to commit further terror.

We have plenty of warnings for American citizens around the world, and it's just advice to people to tell them what to expect. And governments do that because they have an obligation to their own citizens.

There's no question that the requirement is on Arafat right now to take strong and irreversible action, ... reviewing what our policy, what the next steps ought to be.

We dont see a competition between the United State and Russia and China. A lot of what we do here is to give the countries of the region the opportunity to make choices and keep them from being bottled up between two great powers, Russia and China.

welcomed their role in peacekeeping and encouraged them to take on whatever role they were prepared to assume in international affairs.

We're disappointed when we see ballistic missiles tests in this region. We think tests like this contribute to a charged atmosphere, make it harder to prevent a costly and destabilizing nuclear arms race.

We have made quite clear that the influence that Syria has, and others have, on Hezbollah needs to be used in a positive direction and needs to be used to try to restrain these kinds of attacks.

I'd have to say these people who we're sending out will conduct assessments, provide advice, help people get organized,

to talk more about the situation and try to understand these conditions better.

We've reached the conclusion that Iran is actively working to develop nuclear weapons capability.

Obviously Turkey shares our concern about making sure that Iraq doesn't get anything that could further a program of weapons of mass destruction or be possibly involved with making it easier for Iraq to use weapons of mass destruction as they have before.

We certainly hope that with all those things in place and the new attitude being expressed in Ukraine, as well as the new attention that's being focused by the whole world on Ukraine, that this round can truly reflect what the Ukrainian people want, and that the results will reflect what the Ukrainian people decide.

There's been a lot of international support for that course. So, I think we'd say that remains our focus, and that's where we think the international focus should remain,

While Americans have different views on the issues of abortion, I think all agree that no woman should be forced to have an abortion,

At a time when Iraq continues to defy the U.N. sanctions regime ... France, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has allowed a flight to Iraq in blatant violation of U.N. sanctions resolutions.