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John Negroponte Quotes

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn’t necessarily make a lot of generalizations Picture Quote #1

Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras Picture Quote #1

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote - counting became a secondary consideration Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform Picture Quote #1

Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support Picture Quote #1

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Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront Picture Quote #1

Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries Picture Quote #1

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I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn’t necessarily make a lot of generalizations (John Negroponte Quotes) Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras (John Negroponte Quotes) We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote - counting became a secondary consideration (John Negroponte Quotes) 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 (John Negroponte Quotes) To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform (John Negroponte Quotes) Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support (John Negroponte Quotes) Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront (John Negroponte Quotes) Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the democratic process and encouraging elections, in spite of the fact that a war was going on in several of these countries (John Negroponte Quotes)