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In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in territory under its control, including Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims.
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I think that we probably all recognize that an awful lot of the world, most of the world, doesn't know this meeting is taking place, but the truth is our goal for these talks, amending the Montreal Protocol to phase down HFCs, is one of the single most important unitary steps that we could possibly take at this moment to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Environment
In the last two days I have talked personally with his royal highness the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who agreed that we need to try to move forward and we had a good conversation about it, and we know we can do it with countries that have a high ambient (temperature) challenge.
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Environment
I spoke to Foreign Minister Lavrov again today, we both believe that we have an understanding of the direction we are going in and what needs to be achieved and our teams will meet shortly and we are going to continue to do that in order to bolster the cessation of hostilities and in order to increase our capacity to fight back against al Qaeda, which is Nusra, as well as fight back against ISIL.
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Industrials
We both believe that we have an understanding of the direction we are going in and what needs to be achieved and our teams will meet shortly and we are going to continue to do that in order to bolster the cessation of hostilities and in order to increase our capacity to fight back against al Qaeda, which is Nusra, as well as fight back against ISIL.
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We will also do everything in our power to improve delivery of food, medicine, water, incredibly essential humanitarian needs.
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Industrials
We very much welcome the Syrian army declaration of 72-hours of quiet, we are trying very hard to grow these current discussions into a longer lasting ... enforceable, accountable cessation of hostilities that could change the dynamics on the ground.
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Industrials
We are trying very hard to grow these current discussions into a longer lasting ... enforceable, accountable cessation of hostilities that could change the dynamics on the ground.
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Russia's occupation and militarization of parts of Georgia's territory are unacceptable, we continue to call on Russia to fulfill its obligations under the 2008 ceasefire agreement, including a withdrawal of its forces to pre-conflict positions.
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Industrials
The United States stands firm in its commitment to Georgia’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.
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Industrials
The president, very clearly, he was talking about TTIP and the fact that we have 28, now 27, countries we have to negotiate with, or now potentially 27 countries that we have to negotiate with, to get that done.
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I think given what has happened, the president is going to try to do both at the same time. He knows how to multitask.
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There is no mistaking that we are contributing to climate change, we human beings have choices that can undo the damage, there is profound change throughout the Arctic.
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Environment
This is a gigantic transformation that is taking place, you can see it with the naked eye, you see it where the ice has retreated from just in the last 15 to 20 years.
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Environment
What we did in Paris ... is critical now to be implemented, but it is not enough, we have to all move faster in order to embrace new energy policies that are sustainable, that are clean, all of which are there for the using if governments and private sector make the right choices.
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Environment
This has been a significant eye-opener for me and I have spent 25 years or engaged in this issue.
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Environment
Even where there is awareness, the steps people are taking are not big enough, fast enough. We have a huge distance to travel.
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Environment
We reiterated America's fundamental support for negotiations and a peaceful resolution based on the rule of law as well as our concern about any unilateral steps by any party ... to alter the status quo.
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Industrials
Relevant authorities are doing everything they can to try and find out what the facts are of what happened today. I have no more knowledge than others at this point with respect to those facts.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Industrials
I think more could happen faster. More should happen faster. But I'm not surprised. Nobody expected that. This has been 50-plus years of the status quo ... but there are changes that are in place for the positive, if you look at our engagement with other authoritarian regimes around the world through history, have they changed overnight?
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Russia will have to speak itself as to what it is going to choose to do in order to help Mr Assad make the right decisions, but we agreed today that we will accelerate the effort to try to move the political process forward, i believe that Russia is fully engaged in this effort and all of us are going to try and get President Assad to make the right decision over these next days to engage in a political process that results in a genuine transition.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Industrials
It's fair to say three weeks ago there were very, very few people who believed a cessation of hostilities was possible in Syria, the result of that work has produced some progress. There has been a fragile (yet) nevertheless beneficial reduction in violence.
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There is every evidence, every day that there has been an increase of militarization of one kind or another. It's of serious concern, we have had these conversations with the Chinese and I am confident that over the next days we will have further very serious conversation on this.
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Industrials
This is threat to any nation in the world, but particularly we in the United States understand what his purpose is and therefore it is a threat the United States must take extremely seriously, the United States will do what is necessary to protect people in our country and our friends and allies in the world.
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Industrials
The United States will do what is necessary to protect people in our country and our friends and allies in the world.
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Industrials
One is the nuclear program of the DPRK, North Korea, a major challenge to global security, one of the most important issues for the security of the United States of America.
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Industrials
None of us are under any illusions that obstacles don't still exist to trying to seek a political settlement in Syria, we know its tough. If it were easy, it would have happened a long time ago.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
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I won't announce a date, but we all agreed that immediately after completion of the first round of the Syria discussions, the International Syria Support Group will convene, and that will be very shortly, because we want to keep the process moving.
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Now we have the ability to begin to work together to address the concerns that Saudi Arabia and other countries have and that we have.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
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And I believe that with effort and with bona-fide legitimate intent to solve the problem on both sides, it is possible in these next months to find those Minsk agreements implemented and to get to a place where sanctions can be appropriately, because of the full implementation, removed.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
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China had a particular approach that it wanted to make, that we agreed and respected to give them space to implement that, today, in my conversation with the Chinese, I made it very clear that has not worked and we cannot continue business as usual.
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We are days away from implementation if all goes well.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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I am also confident that the recent changes in visa requirements passed in Congress, which the Administration has the authority to waive, will not in any way prevent us from meeting our [ nuclear deal ] commitments, and that we will implement Top Tehran officials so as not to interfere with legitimate business interests of Iran.
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With regard to Syria ... together the United States and Russia have the ability to make a significant difference.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Industrials
We are going to do our part, we will not leave the most vulnerable nations among us to weather the storm alone.
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Environment
We are very concerned about the violence and the potential for the situation to spin out of control.
If we can better identify the 'red flags' of risk around the world, we can better target our diplomacy and development assistance to enable those nations to become more resilient and more secure – and less likely to devolve into full-fledged wars and humanitarian crises.
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Environment
Today I hope we can begin to turn the page on this very difficult period.
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It will get done in its appropriate moment but I would like to see it done as fast as possible.
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I don't have specific expectations except to try to move things forward, that will depend on the conversations themselves as to what it is that we're able to define in the context of steps that might be taken so people understand that in fact leaders are leading and making a serious effort to try and resolve the current ... conflict.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
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Israel understands the importance of the status quo and ... our objective is to make sure that everyone understands what that means.
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This is a human catastrophe unfolding before our eyes and it is a catastrophe that now threatens the integrity of a whole group of countries throughout the region.
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We need every country on the same page, pushing an ambitious, durable and inclusive agreement that will finally put us on the path toward a global clean-energy future.
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Environment
I'm not suggesting the crisis in Syria was caused by climate change ... but the devastating drought made a bad situation a whole lot worse.
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Environment
There is literally too much money chasing too few fish.
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Environment
Everybody is seized by the urgency. We have been all along but the migration levels and continued destruction, the danger of potential augmentation by any unilateral moves puts a high premium on diplomacy at this moment.
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You can squabble maybe with the choice of words.
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I think the merits are very, very strong and I think the president does too.
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They said to me, 'If we can get this deal done, then we're ready to sit down and talk about the regional issues and we may be able to work things in different places,'.
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The arms embargo is not tied to snapback, it is tied to a separate set of obligations. So they are not in material breach of the nuclear agreement for violating the arms piece of it.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Industrials
We're not dependent on the U.N. to do that and I think Israel and others are much happier that we're not, we will depend on our own intel community, on our own military, on our own information, we will work with Israel, we will work with others.
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Industrials
There is a specific U.N. resolution outside of this agreement that prohibits them from sending weapons to Hezbollah. There is a separate and specific U.N. resolution that prohibits them from sending weapons to the Shia militia in Iraq.
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Industrials
We express our hopes that the impact of this can obviously be dealt with minimal further loss of life and disruption.
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Environment
Iran has agreed to refrain from producing or acquiring highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear weapons forever, when it comes to verification and monitoring, there is absolutely no sunset in this agreement. Not in 10 years, not in 15 years, not in 20 years, not in 25 years - no sunset ever.
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What this agreement is supposed to do is stop them from having a nuclear weapon. Now I want to hear somebody tell me how they're going to do that without this agreement.
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If we walk away, we walk away alone. Our partners are not going to be with us.
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That'd be an enormous mistake, a huge mistake with grave consequences for Israel and for the region, and I don't think it's necessary.
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I think we're getting to some real decisions, so I will say, because we have a few tough things to do, I remain hopeful. Hopeful.
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We can’t wait forever, if the tough decisions don’t get made, we are absolutely prepared to call an end to this.
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I'm confident that (Lavrov) will raise it with him yet again.
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As long as that is yet untested and unfailed ... all of us have hopes that Yemen can find a path forward, it is not going to be easy, many things have to happen.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Industrials
We have to continue to keep the pressure on.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Environment
I can't tell you whether or not we can get a deal, whether we are close, the purpose of these negotiations is not just to get a deal, it is to get the right deal.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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As far as we're concerned, Congress has no ability to change an executive agreement.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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President Obama remains committed to a two-state solution.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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We have a critical couple of weeks ahead of us, but we are not feeling a sense of urgency that we have to get any deal. We have to get the right deal.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
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We have said again and again, no deal is better than a bad deal. We're not going to make a bad deal.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
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It's imperative that these elections happen on time as scheduled.
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If you are a big developed nation and you are not helping to lead, you are a part of the problem, more than half of global emissions are coming from developing nations. It is imperative that they act too.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Environment
Every nation, every nation has a responsibility to do its part.
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Environment
More than half of global emissions are coming from developing nations. It is imperative that they act too.
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Environment
We are still on a course leading to tragedy.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Environment
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