John Negroponte Quotes
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There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
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It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes. These are material omissions that - in our view - constitute another material breach. It is up to Iraq to prove that there is some other explanation besides the obvious one, that this declaration is just one more act of deception in a history of lies from a defiant dictator.
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To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
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Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support.
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We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
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Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront.
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John Negroponte
- Born: July 21, 1939
- Occupation: United States Ambassador to the Philippines
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