We have two and a half months more to negotiate; that's a serious amount of time with some serious business left to do, we hope Congress listens carefully and ask the questions that it wants. But also give us the space and the time to be able to complete a very difficult task which has high stakes for our country.

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We are at a juncture where most of the issues are now getting fle... by John Kerry

We are at a juncture where most of the issues are now getting fleshed out and understood.

Terror groups like the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e Taiba, and other groups, continue to pose a threat to Pakistan, to its neighbors, and to the United States, and all of us have a responsibility to ensure that these groups do not gain a foothold but rather are pushed back into the recesses of (Pakistan’s) memory. ... Make no mistake. The task is a difficult one and it is not done.

Obviously, the proof is going to be in the pudding, it will be seen over the next days, weeks, months, how extensive and how successful this effort is going to be.

The tragedy of Dec. 16 is really a reminder of the serious risks of allowing extremists to find space and … command that space and operate within it.

We are concerned about the rise of the number of incidents on the... by John Kerry

We are concerned about the rise of the number of incidents on the border along the line of control.

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Terror groups like the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani network, Lashkar-e Taiba, and other groups, continue to pose a threat to Pakistan, to its neighbors, and to the United States, and we all of us have a responsibility to ensure that these groups do not gain a foothold but rather are pushed back into the recesses of (Pakistan’s) memory, this task is obviously far from finished.

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We continue to be deeply concerned by the recent spate of increased violence along the working boundary and the line of control, it is profoundly in the interests of Pakistan and India to move this relationship forward.

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We have offered, from the first moment, our intel, our law enforcement and all of our efforts, and I really think that, you know, this is sort of quibbling a little bit.

The meeting is calculated to take stock, number one, and to provide direction to our teams, number two, and to hopefully be able to accelerate the process to make greater progress.

We can do more together, and we must do more together, and we hav... by John Kerry

We can do more together, and we must do more together, and we have to do it faster.

And we stand together not just in anger and in outrage, but in solidarity and commitment to the cause of confronting extremism and in the cause that extremists fear so much and that has always united our countries: freedom.

I believe in John's adage that a fight not joined is a fight not... by John Kerry

I believe in John's adage that a fight not joined is a fight not enjoyed.

If people come together, work together, exert an effort to try to find the common ground here, I'm confident that the people of Israel are as interested in peace as are the people in Palestine, in the West Bank, in Jordan, and in the region, but this is not the moment to opine on that process.

And, poof, that was sort of the moment. by John Kerry

And, poof, that was sort of the moment.

The United States condemns North Korea for the cyber-attack targe... by John Kerry

The United States condemns North Korea for the cyber-attack targeting Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The Palestinians've made no determinations about language, approaches, specific resolutions, any of that, this isn't the time to detail private conversations or speculate on a U.N. Security Council resolution that hasn't even been tabled no matter what pronouncements are made publicly about it.

The United States urges all parties to reach without delay a defi... by John Kerry

The United States urges all parties to reach without delay a definitive agreement.

These sanctions could be lifted in a matter of weeks or days, depending on the choices that President Putin takes, their sole purpose here is to restore the international norm with respect to behavior between nations.

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Right now we're trying to have a constructive conversation with everybody, in the end, though, this isn't up to the international community or others.

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Right now we're trying to have a constructive conversation with everybody to find the best way to go forward in order to create the climate, the atmosphere, the political space if you will, to be able to go back to negotiations, in the end, though, this isn't up to the international community or others.