Rob Malley

I don't think that there can be any confusion or ambiguity on who is our partner in the region, and who isn't.

As you’ll hear more coming out of the summit, there’s been agreements reached to increase our cooperation on counterterrorism, streamlining the transfer of critical defense capabilities to our GCC partners, bolstering GCC ballistic defense ... systems, and defending against the cyber threat, on all of those, I think you’ll see progress has been made, there's been much deeper cooperation between us and the GCC.

On all of those I think you’ll see progress has been made, much deeper cooperation between us and the GCC.

This is really the first time since the first term of the Clinton administration where we have an administration that faces a reality where the prospect of a negotiated two-state solution is not in the cards in the time that's remaining, the President has reached the conclusion that right now, barring a major shift, the parties are not going to be in the position to negotiate a final status agreement.