126 Quotes by Nicholas Burns

The United States is sending a strong signal to all the parties that the United States wants the Dayton accords fully implemented.

The United States has said that we find the Russian proposal to be interesting. And it might be a good way to proceed for negotiation. We've never said that we accept, you know, every detail on that proposal.

I shouldn't go into them because they should remain confidential, but they remain barriers to an agreement. I don't believe they're insuperable.

I should also tell you that India has agreed that in the future, all of its civilian power reactors, thermal reactors and breeder reactors, will be placed under international safeguards.

I've pledged to all of my Japanese interlocutors over the last two days that we would work with them over the next several months to see if it's possible to fashion a plan that would receive General Assembly support in New York, so that Japan could enter the Security Council as a permanent member,

It was the only positive development I can point to.

The Security Council has no option but to proceed with the Chapter 7.

The situation has changed fundamentally on the ground, certainly this week, but I think in general over the last couple of months in Bosnia, ... If the Bosnian Serbs felt at one time they could achieve a military victory in this conflict, they certainly don't believe that today and no one else does either.

Ten years is a long time for a country to be under international stewardship, and it is time now to diminish the powers