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Kerry/Ms. Power

lines on the record: 57
first: 2014-09-19
most recent: 2015-12-18
sittings or episodes: 2
sources: un-security-council

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“I want to take this occasion, on behalf of Secretary Kerry, to thank all Council members for moving very quickly today in pursuit of a unified message to the world and unity for resolution 2254 (2015). I know it was not easy for many delegations, so I offer the sincere gratitude of our delegation and all the members of the International Syria Support Group who worked on the resolution and sought to enshrine its key provisions. I now give the floor to the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic.”
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“Allow me to thank the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, Mr. Hammond, for his personal engagement and collaboration on this matter. It has really been key, together with that of Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Laurent Fabius and company. We are very appreciative of their help. I now give the floor to the Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Spain.”
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“I thank Minister Wang Yi particularly for having travelled all the way to be here for one day. He is about to catch a plane to rush back. We are very appreciative of his effort, which, in itself makes an important statement. I now give the floor to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom.”
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“On behalf of the Council, I wish to thank Minister Judeh and the Hashemite Kingdom for their service and the peacekeeping they undertake, as well as for the extraordinary work done with refugees. We are all very grateful. It is now my privilege to give the floor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Development for France.”
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“I thank Mr. Lavrov for his statement and for his leadership on this issue. I now give the floor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign and Expatriate Affairs of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.”
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“It is a particularly important step because it reaffirms this body's endorsement of the Geneva communique concerning a transitional governing body with full executive authority, and it also endorses the progress and the statements that we made in Vienna regarding a time line for the transition and elections, and standards for that election - the highest standards under the supervision of the United Nations for a free, fair, transparent and accountable election. It also brings fundamental values and principles that can guide the shaping of Syria by Syrians for Syrians. Let us proceed with confidence from here in the determination to end this war, eliminate the terrorist threat and enable the people of Syria to return safely to their homes. I now resume my functions as President of the Council.”
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“We have a lot ofdistance to travel - some would say miles to go - but the truth is that, in the past two months we have gone from a stand-still, from a non-existent process, to holding three separate meetings of the ISSG and now securing the Security Council's embrace of a process. We have agreed on a plan of action, and the Council's vote today is an important boost on the road to a political settlement.”
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“Looking ahead, we know that Daesh can never be allowed to gain control in Syria, so we have a global imperative here not only to deal with a terrorist entity, but also to end the civil war and to bring legitimacy back to the governance of Syria. President Al-Assad, in our judgement - which is not shared by everybody, but as the majority ofpeople in the ISSG believe - has lost the ability to unite the country and to provide the moral credibility to govern it in the future. So I shall just say, not as a matter of ideology or of choice but purely as a matter of reality and fact, given the situation on the ground, that if the war is to end it is imperative that the Syrian people agree on an alternative in terms of their governance. That logic is compelling, and it provides a unifying principle for most people in our efforts going forward.”
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“Like many representatives here, I have met with refugees in and out of refugee camps. I have met with survivors, as have others in this Chamber. I have met with caregivers, as they have. I have met with many of the people who have been on the front lines ofthis conflict. I have talked to women who have struggled to hold their families together, despite constant danger, bitter cold, shortages of food and great peril. I have heard the blood-chilling stories of doctors and relief workers who have been dealing with humanitarian trauma on a daily basis - month after month, year after year, and now into the fifth year. I am aware, as is everybody in this Chamber, of the atrocities that have been and are being committed, even as we sit here this afternoon, and too often against innocent civilians.”
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“We have emphasized from the beginning that if this is to work, the process has to be led, shaped, decided and implemented by the men and women of Syria. It cannot be imposed from the outside, and we are not seeking to do so. But we have also seen in recent weeks - in Vienna, Paris and other capitals, and again today here in New York - an unprecedented degree of unity on the need to negotiate this political transition, to defeat Daesh and then, indeed, to end the war. The resolution that we have just adopted is a milestone because it sets out specific concepts with specific time frames. Accordingly, we need to work hard together to help these political talks to go forward, to prepare for a ceasefire and to encourage all the parties in Syria to participate in good faith. Let me just underscore the urgency of our task.”
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“It is the Vienna process and the Vienna communique that has produced the 6-month and 18-month time horizon, and it is the Vienna process that has also embraced the ceasefire concept and a set of principles and values concerning the shape that a new Syria might be able to take, as directed by Syrians for Syrians. It is our hope that a nationwide ceasefire can go into effect, excluding only Daesh, the Al-Nusra Front and any other group that we might decide at some time to designate. I would close by saying that we are under no illusions about the obstacles that exist. There obviously remain sharp differences within the international community, especially about the future of President Al-Assad.”
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“Last week in Riyadh, with the support of His Majesty King Salman and his Government, a broad cross-section of Syrian opposition representatives came together to form a high committee for negotiation. Under resolution 2254 (2015), adopted today, the purpose of those negotiations between the responsible opposition and the Government is to facilitate a transition within Syria to credible, inclusive, non-sectarian governamce within six months. The process would lead to the drafting of a new constitution and arrangements for internationally supervised elections within 18 months. I might add that Geneva never had those dates.”
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“This is why we join here in an effort that is broader and more action-oriented than any ever before attempted regarding Syria to isolate the terrorists and to put Syria on the road to the political transition envisioned by the Geneva communique (S/2012/522, annex) and now embraced by the international community in a Security Council resolution. As the Council's action today reflects, we have made important progress in recent weeks - progress that should give us all fresh grounds for encouragement. Last month in Vienna, the United States and other members of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) agreed on a series of steps to stop the bleeding in Syria, to advance a political transition, to isolate the terrorists, and to help the Syrian people to be able to begin to rebuild their country.”
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“But the truth is that nothing would do more to bolster the fight against the terrorists than a broadly supported diplomatic process that gives the Syrian people a real choice - a choice not between Al-Assad and Daesh, but between war and peace, between the violent extremes and a newly empowered political centre. That is why we have joined many represented here today in support of an urgent diplomatic initiative. Again and again, countries - not just at this table today but in countless meetings in various parts of the world - have reaffirmed the notion that there has to be a political settlement. Well, this is the test.”
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“In the past half-year, the coalition and its partners have worked with Iraqi forces in liberating Tikrit, freeing Sinjar, removing terrorist commanders from the battlefield, cutting off terrorist supply lines, hitting their oil facilities and depriving Daesh of more and more of the territory that it once controlled. Now we are intensifying the pressure, helping our Iraqi partners to retake most of Ramadi and squeezing supply routes into Mosul, and we are pushing ahead into northern Syria, assisting our partners along the Iraqi-Syrian border and in their recruiting and propaganda efforts. Further, as evidenced by the meeting of finance ministers that was held right here in this very Chamber yesterday (see S/PV.7587), we are multiplying our efforts to cut Daesh off from the revenue sources that support its depravity and criminality.”
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“That is the Council's goal here this afternoon: to put an end to the indiscriminate bombing, the acts of terror, the torture and the bloodshed. And our shared task is to find a way to make that happen. In support of that objective, President Obama has three interrelated goals for my country. The first is to support our friends and to ensure that the instability created by the civil war in Syria does not spread further beyond its borders. That is why we are providing a record amount of humanitarian assistance, and it is why we are doing more to help Syria's neighbours to strengthen their capacity to safeguard their territory and to defend against external threats. Secondly, we are determined, with our coalition and its partners, to degrade and defeat the terrorist organization known as Daesh.”
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“I also want to thank Foreign Minister Lavrov for his collaboration and efforts in the course of both Vienna conferences to produce the two Vienna communiques, which are integrated into today's resolution. By adopting resolution 2254 (2015) today, the Council is sending a clear message to all concerned that the time is now to stop the killing in Syria and lay the groundwork for a Government that the long-suffering people of that battered land can support. After four and a half years of war, this is the first time that we have been able to come together at the United Nations in the Security Council to embrace a road forward. During that time, one Syrian in 20 has been killed or wounded; one in five is a refugee; and one in two has been displaced. The average life expectancy in Syria has dropped by 20 years. We need to reverse the course.”
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“The draft resolution has been adopted unanimously as resolution 2254 (2015). I shall now make a statement in my capacity as the Secretary of State of the United States. I want to begin by thanking the other permanent members who joined together to help fashion the resolution 2254 (2015) and spent time this morning working with our colleagues in order to bring us here this afternoon, plus the non-member, Germany, to whom we are also very grateful for their participation. I want to thank all of the members of the Council for coming together at this late hour. I thank in particular Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Special Envoy de Mistura for their leadership and commitment.”
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“I thank the Secretary-General for his briefing. I think everybody here joins in thanking the Secretary-General for his leadership and for all of the help provided by the United Nations. Members of the Council have before them document S/2015/996, which contains the text ofa draft resolution submitted by the United States of America. The Council is ready to proceed to the vote on the draft resolution before it. I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now. A vote was taken by Show ofhands. In favour: Angola, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) The President: The draft resolution received 15 votes in favour.”
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“I would like to warmly welcome the Secretary-General, the Ministers and the other representatives present in the Security Council Chamber today. Their presence here underscores the importance of the subject under discussion today. In accordance with rule 37 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, I invite the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to participate in this meeting. The Security Council will now begin its consisderation of the item on its agenda. Let me just say to everybody that we have a number of Ministers who have flight schedules to meet. This went on a little longer than we had thought, and I appreciate everybody's patience. We are very grateful to them. It is now my honour now to give the floor to the Secretary-General, His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon.”
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“I thank all the speakers who have participated in today's very productive meeting. There are no more names inscribed on the list of speakers. The Security Council has thus concluded the present stage of its consideration of the item on its agenda. The meeting rose at 6.35 pm.”
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“I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Abbas Araghchi, Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
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“I thank you very much, Your Highness. I hope you will pass on our thanks to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed for the support that we are receiving with respect to this coalition and initiative. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Armand de Decker, Minister of State of Belgium.”
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“I appreciate enormously your contribution. I thank you for all the things that you are doing, notwithstanding the other challenges that we know you are facing. I now give the floor to His Highness Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates. Let me also say how important a partner in many ofthese efforts the United Arab Emirates has been. We appreciate it enormously, and thank you for your advice and counsel.”
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“I thank the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Oman for all of the things that his country is doing. I now give the floor to Her Excellency Ms. Maia Panjikidze, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia.”
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“I appreciate that and look forward to continuing to work with Qatar in the days ahead. This week will be important as we develop some of our efforts. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Yousef Bin Al-Alawi Bin Abdulla, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Oman, to whom and through whom I offer my profound thanks to His Highness the Sultan and to himself with respect to a number of initiatives, but most recently their generous support for the Palestinian economic initiative.”
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“I thank Minister Al-Khalifa for the important list of commitments that Bahrain is prepared to make. We all look forward to taking part in the conference, which will be a very important part of success. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Khalid Bin Mohamed Al-Attiyah, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Qatar, whom I thank for the early and defined commitments that his country has already made to our effort.”
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“I thank you, Sameh, for your patience today and for taking the time to come to be here. In particular we you for your leadership on this issue. I now give the floor to His Excellency Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bahrain.”
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“Let me say that we all join in congratulating Mr. Timmermans on the new role that he will be playing. We are glad his passion and eloquence are going to be continuing to fight for the principles that bring him here. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Sameh Hassan Shokry Selim, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt. I want to thank Mr. Selim for his significant efforts in the past months on a number of different fronts. We truly appreciate Egypt's leadership on the ceasefire and engagement with respect to this issue, Libya and others.”
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“I thank Mr. Garcia Margallo very much, in particular for the important commitments he articulated. They are very welcome and important. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Barge Brende, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Norway.”
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“We appreciate Turkey's efforts and also, obviously, the comments about Syria as a front- line border State. As Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier said, Turkey's efforts will be critical. We look forward to working with your country. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Jose' Manuel Garcia Margallo, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Spain.”
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“Thank you very much, Frank- Walter. I appreciate your leadership and efforts. We look forward to that conference and its resulting benefits. I now have the pleasaure of giving the floor to His Excellency Mr. Mevliit Cavusoglu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey.”
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“Before we hear from other invited speakers, I want to quickly offer a word. It is well known that an essential requirement of being engaged in diplomacy is patience. I want to particularly thank all the Ministers who have come here in response to the invitation today. They have displayed extraordinary patience in sitting through the meeting thus far, and there are many more speakers to come. I think the importance of that fact makes its own statement: that so many feel compelled to take part and to express publicly their feelings about what is happening in Iraq and Syria and the region and how compelling it is that we all must act. I want to again say thank you to all of my fellow Ministers who have sat patiently thus far and who are participating through this afternoon. It is now my pleasure to give the floor to His Excellency Mr.”
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“We thank Mr. Ellwood enormously for the significant initiatives and contributions of the United Kingdom. I also congratulate him on the fact that the United Kingdom is still the United Kingdom, and we are delighted that Scotland decided to hang in there with you.”
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“I thank the Secretary of Foreign Affairs for a strong measure of support and for a forceful statement. We appreciate it. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Tobias Ellwood, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom.”
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“We obviously appreciate the holistic approach that Chad endorses. We all acknowledge and know that Chad understands the challenge very well. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Eduardo Zuain, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Argentina.”
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“I thank Laurent Fabius for an eloquent and forceful statement and, on behalf of everybody, we also thank him for the leadership of France last week. We appreciated it enormously and thank him for his literally heroic effort to be here today. We are very grateful. I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Minister for Foreign Affairs and African Integration of Chad.”
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“Thank you, Your Excellency, for the important reminder of the impact of inaction from 1994. I now give the floor to Ms. Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia.”
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“I now resume my functions as President of the Council. I now give the floor to Her Excellency Ms. Louise Mushikiwabo, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Rwanda.”
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“One of our most respected military experts sitting right here behind me, General John Allen - who served in Afghanistan in command of our forces there for two years and also in Iraq, and who knows many of the people in Iraq from his service in Anbar - has agreed to come to the State Department with a presidential appointment and oversee the United States effort to match up each country's capabilities with the coalition's total needs so that the line of effort is coordinated. I look forward to hearing from all of those here in the course of this afternoon. Again, I would close by thanking everybody for joining this discussion, and I am absolutely confident that through a global campaign that is comprehensive and committed, we can support the promise of the new Government in Iraq, and we can defeat the ISIL threat wherever it exists.”
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“I hope that today the progress that I have described will continue, and that over the course of this week more partners will come forward and more commitments to these efforts will be announced. Make no mistake - our work to build and enhance this coalition will continue well after this week is over. I commit that to those here, and President Obama firmly commits it to.”
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“Last week, the Iraqis, long estranged from their neighbours and isolated from the world, were not just invited, but were warmly welcomed at international meetings in Jeddah and Paris, and now here in New York, before the Security Council and the entire world. What is different about today's meeting - and this is one reason why we are so grateful to so many ministers for travelling here - is that at previous such meetings the world did not share in the deliberations or the discussions formally as they went on; they heard afterwards. Today, the world can listen to each of the ministers, and it will understand the breadth and scope of the support for this effort. We are well on our way, but that does not mean that we are where we need to be.”
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“Saudi Arabia's top clerics this week came out publicly and declared terrorism a heinous crime under Sharia law and called ISIL in particular "the order of Satan". All of this is vital, because we know that in preventing an individual from joining ISIL or from getting to the battlefield in the first place, that is the most effective measure one can take. But if this campaign international to have any chance of success, Iraq itself - and its security forces on the front lines - must be leading the way. That is one of the reasons why it is imperative that we all go the extra mile to help Iraq fully reintegrate into the region and into the global community of nations. That is starting to happen.”
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“This is yet another area where countries have already begun to take important steps, including legislation criminalizing the recruitment, preparation and participation of their citizens in combat activities of terrorism abroad. Finally, there is an urgent need to counter the poisonous propaganda and gross distortion of Islam that ISIL is spreading far and wide. It is time to put an end to a group that is so extreme in its rejection of modernity that it bans math and social studies for children. It is time to put an end to the sermons of extremists that brainwash young men to join these terrorist groups and commit mass atrocities in the name of God. This is something that leaders of the region are very focused on.”
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“That includes donations from countries within the region - Saudi Arabia, Qatar and elsewhere - as well as funds from countries on the other side of the world: Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and more. We are seeing encouraging progress in the effort to dry up ISIL's illicit funding as well, and Bahrain has offered to host an international conference in the near future to further develop a global action plan to counter terrorist financing. As we will discuss next week at the meeting that President Obama will preside over, we must also stop the flow of foreign fighters to ISIL - men and women who carry passports from countries around the world, including nearly every country represented in this Chamber.”
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“Germany, in recognition of the grave threat posed by ISIL, reversed its long-standing policy against offering lethal aid. Last night, France conducted its first air strikes against ISIL targets in Iraq. These forms of assistance, provided at the request of Iraq and in full respect for its sovereignty, are essential to combating ISIL, but they are only one part of the comprehensive approach that is required. We are also seeing overwhelming support when it comes to humanitarian assistance. Dozens of countries from throughout the international community have so far committed almost $1 billion to the United Nations-led humanitarian response in Iraq.”
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“I have to say that in many of the meetings that I have had so far, leaders are not talking about if they should support our campaign against ISIL; they are asking how. Already, across each of the lines of effort that we are focused on, we have seen more than 50 countries come forward with critical commitments. Regarding military support, countries in the region and around the world are already providing assistance, both in terms of kinetic action and also in the form of training, advising, equipping, providing logistical support and so on. In the region, countries such as Egypt have committed to significantly enhancing the coordination between its forces and Iraqi and Kurdish forces. But even further away from Iraq, countries such as Australia are committing to deploying fighter jets, support aircraft and personnel.”
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“ISIL poses a threat to all of us, and we are committed to working in close partnership with the new Iraqi Government and countries around the world to defeat it. That is why I have spent the past week consulting with my Iraqi counterparts and travelling in the Middle East and in Europe, building partnerships, and that is why we were so focused on hosting the meeing here today. I also thank Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal for Saudi Arabia's leadership in hosting its conference in Jeddah, and President Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in France for their leadership in hosting the conference in Paris. From each of these has come a greater and greater commitment to doin what we need to do.”
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“In the face of this sort of evil, we have only one option to confront it with a holistic, global campaign that is committed and capable of degrading and destroying this terrorist threat and ensuring that ISIL cannot find a safe haven in Iraq, Syria or elsewhere. As President Obama has clearly explained, and as I think everyone in this Chamber is well aware of at this point, the coalition required to eliminate ISIL is not only, or even primarily, military in nature. It must be comprehensive and include close collaboration across multiples lines of effort. It is about taking out an entire network - decimating and discrediting a militant cult masquerading as a religious movement. The fact is there is a role for nearly every country in the world to play, including Iran, whose Foreign Minister is here today.”
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“In a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are actually unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners, kneeling them down, tying their hands behind their backs, a bullet through their heads. They kill children. They enslave, rape and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. In acts of barbarism, they took the lives of two American journalists, Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker, David Haines. Simply, ISIL poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria and the broader Middle East. If left unchecked, those terrorists certainly would pose a growing threat beyond the region - because they have already promised to do so. Ultimately, history will judge how the world responds to this moment, to this challenge.”
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