USA: SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL ADDRESSES SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON MACEDONIA

Record ID: 970853

  • Title: USA: SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL ADDRESSES SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON MACEDONIA
  • Date: 21st June 2001
  • Summary: WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 20, 2001) 1. MV U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL ENTERING COMMITTEE HEARING ROOM 0.15 2. SOUNDBITE (English) CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE JOE BIDEN SAYING, "They had not met the criteria of the defence department as to whether or not to go ahead and begin the deployment of the system by pouring the concrete and putting radars in Alaska. 3. SOUNDBITE (English) POWELL SAYING, "I think what Secretary Rumsfeld is moving in this direction rapidly with research development technologies and as soon as a confidence level has been reached, we might take the option of deploying them as they become ready. 0.27 3. SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) POWELL SPEAKING ABOUT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LEVELS 0.45 4. SCU SENATOR LISTENING 0.49 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) POWELL SAYING "We have seven hundred people in Macedonia already and they at some point could become a part of the process and we also have elements in Kosovo who are working on the Kosovo-Macedonia so I think that we are involved, militarily, diplomatically but we have not yet made any commitment to troops for the purpose of this potential disarmament mission because we really don't see a need to make such a contribution yet ." 1.30 6. SCU SENATOR LISTENING 1.37 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) POWELL SAYING " What we are not doing at this point is to start placing bets on individual companies because we do not want to deter any country from doing more over the next year and a half or setting or setting off a contest. What the president clearly said was that from the Baltic region down to the Balkans is we should not let any country be excluded because of geography, history or because another country does not like them becoming a member of the alliance." 2.17 8. SCU SENATOR SPEAKING 2.29 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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