"We've always said peace is the strategic choice of the Arabs..." per #SaudiArabia's @FaisalbinFarhan "What we have to do is focus on working towards a comprehensive solution to the #Palestinian issue"
"We already have an emboldened #Iran" per #SaudiArabia FM @FaisalbinFarhan when asked about US-#Tehran talks on getting back to the #JCPOA "Iran is extremely active in the region w/its negative activity"
"The #JCPOA, we supported it when it was first signed, begrudgingly, bcs we thought it was incomplete" per @FaisalbinFarhan
'We now hear from the Biden administration & from others that they are committed to a longer&stronger approach to JCPOA...We are interested to hear that"
"I still remember vidly watching the scenes from #NewYork on television...The shock & almost despair I felt" per #Saudi FM @FaisalbinFarhan, asked to reflect on the upcoming 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
"It's something we shared the world around"
9/11 "showed us very clearly that we have a global problem" per #Saudi FM @FaisalbinFarhan,
"We have stepped up even more & we have become one of the key players...we need to continue to work together"
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"I have a sense of urgency...we have to be in a position to make sure that the status quo remains as it applies to #Taiwan"
"We certainly view w/concern many of the actions that we've seen from #Beijing" per @INDOPACOM's Adm Aquilino
#China's action in #HongKong "completely disconnected from the words from #Beijing to adhere to the agreement that was in place" he says, adding same w/#India border
"Some of the leading threats to the American way of life are #cyber enabled - from espionage to influence to attack" Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber Anne Neuberger tells #AspenSecurity
"#SolarWinds was not the 1st case of aggressive Russian cyber activity in int'l space" per @WHNSC's Neuberger
"In the case of #China, there's still that building of consensus around malicious cyber activity, around the need to call it out together" w/allies, per @WHNSC's Neuberger, adding that it "doesn't preclude follow-on activity"
On Monday, he told @VOANews' @AyazGul64 "The [Afghan] government cannot get rid of the #Taliban" & "the Taliban cannot conquer Afghanistan & have a gvt & that has the support of the overwhelming majority of the Afghans"
"The Talibs [#Taliban] have been emboldened by the development of recent weeks in terms of the gains they have made & are in a maximalist frame of mind"
.@US4AfghanPeace says US assessment is that neither side can achieve a military solution
"There is no alternative, ultimately, to a political settlement"
JUST IN: #ISIS attacks in #Iraq#Syria up in April-June 2021 period compared to previous 3 months, per new @DoD_IG report
Warns reduction in violence at #alHol camp in Syria after #SDF sweep in April "may be only temporary" as ISIS retains a "strong presence" per @CENTCOM
MORE: Impact of #Iran-aligned militias has so far been "minimal" @CJTFOIR tells @DoD_IG, "but the attacks often resulted in the diversion of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets away from counter-ISIS activities" per acting IG Sean O'Donnell
"Efforts to promote regional stability in #Iraq & #Syria continued to face challenging conditions, including economic crises, drought conditions, & the #COVID19 pandemic" per @DoD_IG O'Donnell "These conditions...provide fertile opportunities for #ISIS to expand its influence"