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 Copy Share Image
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
It should be obvious that this pattern of systematic holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration is not the result of accidents, editing oversights or… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
I think there, there also had been just before I got to Honduras a rather spectacular capture of an arms shipment that from Nicaragua… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Those of us who actually were working in the region at the time will point out how strongly committed we were to supporting the… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
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… — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Considering a work program at this time is quite simply out of touch with the reality we confront. — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Very hard, very hard to represent a country, or carry out a policy that does not have consensus support. — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
