Martin Indyk
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"Martin Sean Indyk" is the Vice President and Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He took leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as the U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli–Palestinian Negotiations from 2013 to 2014. Indyk served as Ambassadors of the United States/United States ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Presidency of Bill Clinton/Clinton Administration. He is known as the framer of the U.S. policy of dual containment which sought to 'contain' Iraq and Iran, which were both viewed as the United States' two most important strategic adversaries at the time. He is the author of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peacemaking Diplomacy in the Middle East.

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We too have high hopes that a new era is going to begin very shortly.

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We will not seek to delay unnecessarily the transition to a permanent lifting of sanctions, ... We would like to see Libya genuinely comply and return to full participation in the family of nations. But the requirements set by the Security Council must first be addressed.

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We will be launching an effort to help them organize and coordinate their case against Saddam Hussein.

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It will take time and hard work. A lot more will be done behind the scenes than will be noticeable publicly, at least at first.

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I think Washington is assessing now what the best time would be for stepped up engagement. But they'll make that decision in Washington.

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To take steps to curb the incitement, curb the violence.

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Chairman Arafat is not in Gaza, he's traveling around the world, and therefore one critical player in this process is not available to us at the moment.

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Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests.

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Promotion of U.S. interests in the Middle East, especially in support of President Clinton's efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace.

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