Nicholas Burns Hope Quotations

We hope very much that we can schedule a date and venue for a briefing on the four-party talks, ... The North Koreans have agreed to that. We just need to schedule it.

We hope very much that this issue can be resolved very soon,

We hope very much for the sake of the Russian republic and the Chechen people that there will be no return to the bloodletting.

We very much hope that these sanctions will not be implemented bluntly in a way that would be damaging to the Iranian people, but it is going to be sanctions that will get the attention of the Iranian government.

We hope that the Afghan constitution is going to be upheld and in our view, if it's upheld, then of course he'll be found to be innocent.

We hope and we trust that that deal will not go forward.

We would hope these issues could be resolved before President Bush visits Kyoto in just a couple of weeks time. We expect that will be the case but there's still some remaining hard work that needs to be done.

That remains our plan. And I've been in touch with the Indian government this week. I expect to be in touch with them in the coming days, and we hope to reach that goal.

It is the strong hope of the United States that Japan will decide to maintain its troops in Iraq beyond December of this year,