"It'll be a critical summit, from the point of keeping the EU together,keeping consensus that the EU should maintain leadership on this issue,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

"Those are the complaints that we are actually dealing with at this point in time." VOA News asked Kippen if the on-site investigations of massive ballot box stuffing and other acts of election fraud will take weeks or,as some predict, months to complete.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

He also offered some tough talk. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02