The burden is on Iraq to demonstrate its absolute and authoritative commitment to cooperation,
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We know foreign governments want our technology. We know they will go to all lengths to get it, ... It is incumbent upon us to have the best security practices, constantly to review them, learn the lessons from the past and make sure that it doesn't happen again.Thomas Pickering
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We ... believe that a military solution to Sri Lanka is not possible ... We are supportive of the Norwegian initiative,
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