Philip Reeker Quotations

As Secretary Powell has always said, he and Deputy Secretary Armitage serve at the pleasure of the president and will continue to do so.

As with the issue of censorship, while we understand the seriousness of the crisis that Sri Lanka faces, we call on the government to avoid restrictions of civil liberties.

This is a matter of extreme seriousness. The sanctity of diplomatic personages is very important to us as well as the international community and must be upheld. No determination has yet been made as to precisely what happened or whose forces were involved. We are trying to establish these facts.

It really remains vital that press freedoms be preserved to the greatest extent possible, consistent, obviously, with the need to protect the security of military operations.

Inter-Korean dialogue is the key to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.

We are determined ... to develop as broad a campaign against international terrorism as possible. And a positive Iranian role in this effort would obviously contribute to our goal of promoting peace and stability, and increasing our security.

We haven't made any decisions, in terms of announcements or any other forward moving there. I've described for you our goals and the road map. And I can't give you any more dates. It's something we're still looking at.

Our policy toward Iran has not changed. The president has said we will be looking for indications that countries do want to change. But ... we've had long-standing concerns.

The meeting was businesslike and a useful beginning to the dialogue process.

I'm not going to try to determine what steps the Israelis may or may not take or how they should take it. What we want to see is action to end the terrorism. We've called for that. Chairman Arafat's made statements. He needs to follow through on those statements. He can do more.