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CHENNAI: The “threats and harassment” that members of the press continue to experience in Sri Lanka remain a “significant concern” to the United States, according to Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary, South and Central Asian Affairs. Full Article at The Hindu
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COLOMBO, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake said here Wednesday that he appreciated the resettlement process of the Tamil civilians who were displaced by the final battles of the... Full Article at Xinhua
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Robert Blake (C), U.S. assistant secretary for South Asia, introduces his team members to President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav (R) at his office in Kathmandu June 12, 2009. View Photo »
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Home Minister Chidambaram made a very successful visit to the United States in September, during which he had very productive meetings with a full range of counterparts in the U.S. — the Director of the FBI, the head of the CIA and the Attorney-General.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has made good progress in its post-war efforts at resettling people, but hard work remains on press freedom and human rights, the top U.S. envoy for south Asia said on Tuesday. Full Article at Reuters
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Colombo: US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Robert Blake today expressed satisfaction with the government's ongoing resettlement programme for displaced Tamil civilians in northern Sri Lanka. Full Article at Zee News
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COLOMBO: Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia and the former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Robert Blake, on Tuesday expressed “satisfaction” over Colombo’s programme for re-settlement of nearly 2.9 lakh Tamil civilians displaced... Full Article at The Hindu
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Robert Blake (L), U.S. assistant secretary for South Asia, shakes hands with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal at his office in Kathmandu June 12, 2009. View Photo »
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With the other attorneys of her firm, Gloria has been involved in some of the most defining cases of our day, including O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson and Robert Blake, as well as one of the earliest sexual abuse suits against the Catholic Church. At the same time, she has also played a r...
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - The U.S. diplomat responsible for south Asia landed in Sri Lanka on Tuesday after a U.S. Senate committee urged the United States not to "lose" its relationship with the strategically located island nation. Full Article at ABC News
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Govt resettlement programme satisfactory - Robert Blake; IDPs down to 94,000
Sri Lanka Ministry of Defense
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia and former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Robert Blake expressed satisfaction with the government's resettlement programme now underway and the new freedom of movement allowed and said that he... Full Article at Sri Lanka Ministry of Defense
About Robert Blake
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Robert Blake (born September 18, 1933(1933-09-18)) is an American Emmy-award-winning actor most famous for starring in the U.S. television series Baretta from 1975 to 1978. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife. Full Article
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Home Minister Chidambaram made a very successful visit to the United States in September, during which he had very productive meetings with a full range of counterparts in the U.S. — the Director of the FBI, the head of the CIA and the Attorney-General.
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With the other attorneys of her firm, Gloria has been involved in some of the most defining cases of our day, including O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson and Robert Blake, as well as one of the earliest sexual abuse suits against the Catholic Church. At the same time, she has also played a r...
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The United States welcomes the recent progress by the government of Sri Lanka
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India is a rising global power ... We think that India has an increasingly significant role to play on virtually all of the major challenges that we face in this century.
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India is a rising global power ... We think that India has an increasingly significant role to play on virtually all of the major challenges that we face in this century.
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In terms of our trade, it has more than doubled just in the last five years and now exceeds 43 billion dollar. And we expect that growth to continue into the foreseeable future as India's middle class continues to grow and as India's economy continues to open up
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That's something for India and Pakistan to work out together, and I don't want to start getting in the middle of telling one country or the other what they should be doing
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I don't think there needs to be any concern in India about what the President said in China. We have very important relations with China. But we have equally important relations with India
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I don't think there needs to be any concern in India about what the President said in China. We have very important relations with China. But we have equally important relations with India
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I don't think there needs to be any concern in India about what the President said in China. We have very important relations with China. But we have equally important relations with India
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Now we are in such a position, and Secretary (of State, Hillary) Clinton, went out in July and conveyed this invitation on behalf of the US President for Manmohan Singh to be the first state visitor of the Obama administration
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Well, both. I mean - and we want to - we want to get their views on both of the countries and, again, solicit their advice, just as we would with friends like India
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As I say, they have major investments in China, and we value their advice. And they also have important stakes in the stability of Afghanistan. So it's only natural that we would consult them about what's going on them
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As I say, they have major investments in China, and we value their advice. And they also have important stakes in the stability of Afghanistan. So it's only natural that we would consult them about what's going on them
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Well, again, that's up to those three countries to sort out. I mean, it's not really for me to try to make pronouncements about that. You clearly denied that there is any role for China in improving India-Pakistan relations.
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I don't think Islamabad should in any way feel threatened by the steps that we're taking with India
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There's still some in Pakistan who believe that India is their primary threat, and not the extreme militant organisations
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I think Pakistan wants to do that, and they've consistently said that they want to make sure that Pakistan's territory is not used as a platform. So those are the kind of areas where we do have some -- we can play a role. But by and large on the bilateral issues facing their two countries, it's up to In...
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I think Pakistan wants to do that, and they've consistently said that they want to make sure that Pakistan's territory is not used as a platform. So those are the kind of areas where we do have some -- we can play a role. But by and large on the bilateral issues facing their two countries, it's up to In...
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I think it's no accident that President Obama decided that the very first state visitor of his administration would be Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
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It is really about unleashing the potential of people outside of government to cooperate, because we feel that such a vast range of contacts are already taking place between India and the United States and one of the most effective things that we can do is to try to empower those contacts further
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civil nuclear agreement unlocks the possibility for us to cooperate much more on some of these big global nonproliferation issues, and India wants to work on these issues with us and they've said so publicly. We welcome that, and Under Secretary Tauscher and Bob Einhorn and Gary and others will all be w...
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these are people that have a great deal of experience, and Bob Einhorn and Gary Samore have worked a lot on India and have favorably known inside India.
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The US has stressed to the government that to achieve a lasting peace, it must promote justice and political reconciliation for all parties and dialogue with all parties, including Tamils inside and outside Sri Lanka, on new mechanisms for devolving power
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Our position has always been that this is something that needs to be worked out between our two friends India and Pakistan. I would prefer to just leave it at what I already said
