Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “Sir, we have seen these reports, and we have had a number of conversations with the Rwandan Government to encourage them…”

basic humanitarian assistance should never be held hostage to political disagreements.

We are prepared to have an open dialogue with the North Koreans without preconditions. We want to pursue diplomacy.

I can tell you that the Russians were making every effort to intimidate and press those countries away from supporting this General Assembly resolution.

We are stronger than we ever were before in terms of the European Union, NATO. All of this was not part of Putin`s plan. I think he thought that we would start to fray around the edges very, very quickly.