The two Americans in the Philippines will be returning to the United States. As far as their situation here, I’d refer you to U.S. law enforcement authorities.

These convictions are based on evidence that isn’t credible and trial that isn’t fair. We and the Europeans have been very outspoken in calling for an independent investigation.

And they’re going to be consistent with other countries and other international practices. So, that’s a good thing. It’s one that contributes to transparency, to confidence, and frankly, to a lessening of tensions, not an...

We would applaud China and its success as only the third country to launch people into space.

That will definitely, I think, figure on the agenda of our discussions in both India and Pakistan. But it will by no means overshadow the other very, very important bilateral issues that we have with...

There was no connection between the two events.

You’ve heard from members of Congress their distress at the developments in Egypt. If I were an Egyptian, or an Egyptian government official, I’d be concerned at the kind of reaction that these latest actions...

What we want to see, what the Russians want to see, what the EU-3 wants to see and what the IAEA wants to see is an Iranian cooperation. Does this statement by this one person...

We would have liked to see a peacekeeping force stood up yesterday. But there’s a lot of moving parts to this. It is important to bring on as many people as possible. And that’s got...

We view them with serious concern.

decisions about who should govern a country are best made by the citizens of that nation through an open and transparent process.

be reviewing what has been accomplished, the strong steps that Pakistan has taken to combat this problem. And we’ll look at how we can engage with Pakistan on international nonproliferation standards.

We’ve made clear our view, which is we support the Russian proposal. It’s within the context of the EU diplomacy aimed at getting Iran to re-suspend its enrichment activities and return to negotiations.

The United States calls on the government of Iran to allow freedom of religion for all Iranians, and to ensure the right to freedom of speech and expression for all its citizens, without fear of...

The future of Kyrgyzstan should be decided by the people of Kyrgyzstan, consistent with the principles of peaceful change, of dialogue and respect for the rule of law.

So if anybody needed a reminder, this is it, that the Syrian government should take immediate steps to crack down on this group and to inhibit its activities by shutting down Islamic Jihad offices and...

Given that rate of abstention, plus expressions of concern by prominent Venezuelans, we would see that this reflects a broad lack of confidence in the impartiality and transparency of the electoral process.

We also make clear that the pace and scope and shape of democratic reform is for the people of Hong Kong to decide.

There’s no deal, frankly, that I’m aware of.

Others will be in the field to support these programs, as well as to get a better idea and a better handle of what’s going on in Iran.

We have a fighting chance, folks are at the table and working hard.

There are going to be differences. That’s to be expected.

We’re going to be looking at exactly what happened and how it happened in order to, sort of, assess what the vulnerabilities were.

I would say we’re at a preliminary stage. Let’s see how the vote count goes and the results of the investigation are.

This visit will represent one of the key milestones in the broad and complex undertaking that both countries work together to contribute to international growth and stability in ways that benefit both countries.

We do not have enough to make a conclusive judgment, I think, one way or the other.

U.S. assistance (to Iraq) is not designed to favor one group or another group, it’s designed to help all Iraqis promote … goals of a representative government that includes all Iraq’s political factions and is...

This is horrific act of violence which we condemn.

And the United States, for its part, is going to do everything it can to ensure that the rights of Iraqi citizens are respected.

Discussions continue, we’re making progress. I think I’d leave it at that.

They have had two years to take action to secure the facility. They haven’t done it.

The escalating violence threatens the process of democratization and reconciliation in Kosovo and must end.

Some of these positions will be involved with administering the 75 million dollars that we hope to get from Congress to promote empowerment and democracy, and flow of information and citizen exchanges in Iran.

The US position is this is a sovereign decision for the government of Israel to make. We understand that decision.

And I wouldn’t at this point make any specific linkages to what happened in this parliamentary election to any of those issues.

A particular focus of the discussions was the PKK and its affiliates and how we could all cooperate to eliminate the terrorist threat to Turkey from northern Iraq .

Our view is that the constitution of the Philippines and the rule of law must be respected and violence must be rejected. We hope the situation will return to normal.

If you look at where Egypt is now in terms of reforms and openness and democratic development versus where it was a year or two years ago, I think it’s important to note that there...

The United States remains particularly concerned by the Maoist insurgency, which presents the most immediate threat to a peaceful and prosperous Nepal.

The United States is going to push for this, whether it’s the president of the Security Council or not. We used up the month of our presidency of the Security Council to move this ball...

One day they will say there is a deal and the other day they will say there is no deal, and then they will say there is one only on their terms.

demonstrated a sustained commitment to cooperation and transparency.

We are watching the situation in Togo closely.

We’ve always made clear that truces are good only insofar as they go, and that’s really not very far.

President Chen’s assurances were quite clear that the NUC has not been abolished.

This isn’t a question of hearts and minds. It’s a question of bodies and gore. This is a network, a confederacy of evil that will stop at nothing to advance its radical agenda.

We believe that it’s important to achieve universal suffrage in Hong Kong as soon as possible, that the people of Hong Kong are ready for democracy, and that the sooner that a timetable for achieving...

Undersecretary Burns, I think, made clear to the Russians our broad concerns over Iranian behavior and this sale in particular.

Unrelated to the six-party talks, there are measures in the United States to take action against counterfeiting and other activities that can be used to threaten the United States pursuant to the Patriot Act.

The needs are great, and there are ways to do this, to ensure that those needs are met.