Eliot Engel

The frustration is that it has been 19 years and nothing seems to happen.

The murder and mass burial of almost a thousand innocent civilians is a crime against humanity but the perpetrators have gone unpunished.

I had an ironclad promise face-to-face by the head of Serbia, Mr. Vucic, who told me it would take him a month.

It has to stop now until Serbia bring those who have committed these serious crimes to justice.

I am deeply concerned with the lack of justice for murders and crimes committed by the Government of Serbia during and after the Kosovo War.

So we have to keep supporting the Albanian people in their struggle in Kosovo and keep the presence of the Bytyqi brothers alive. And we are not going to stop until we get justice for them.

It is an absolute disgrace.

I have spent extensive time of my years in Congress fighting for the independence of Kosovo.

You need not make peace with your friends

We have a conditions-based strategy in South Asia. But those conditions, however, have never been spelled out.

If we can talk to Kim Jong-un, certainly, we can talk to the Taliban.

I am glad that you support negotiations with the Taliban.

We owe this to the women and men who serve our country in uniform, to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice fighting this war, and to those who perished on September 11, 2001, in my home city of New York.

Now is the time to make peace and security our number-one goal and to implement a strategy in Afghanistan that will help us achieve it.

After many years of war, it's crystal clear that there is no military solution to end the fighting in Afghanistan.

The very nature of a peace settlement... has to be negotiated with Afghans and not over the heads of Afghans.

In sum, the administration seems to be planning to escalate the war in order to break the stalemate, forcing the Taliban to the negotiating table.

The Trump administration announced its approach to deal with the stalemate nearly a year ago in what it termed a new strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia.

Fifteen thousand American troops remain on the ground there fighting America's longest war and we provide billions in assistance every year.

Our policy, obviously, toward Afghanistan is critical.

So we need to be honest.

Several formerly democratic countries... have moved in a decisively autocratic direction over the last several years.

It's based upon, in my view, just a failure to understand what we do and the value of what we do.

The amount and separating us from the four institutes. And both of these are devastating.

The budget that's, woefully, inadequate.