Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States.

Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States. The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship.

The government doesn't have the authority to exclude people from the country, invited scholars, simply because it doesn't like what they have to say.

The immigration laws should not be used as instruments of censorship. The State Department should not be deciding which ideas Americans hear and which they do not.

Our policy is the same toward the United States that it has so far been. There is no debate about relations and negotiation with the U.S. There has been no change in our policy.

The United States calls on all concerned to avoid the harsh language that has recently blemished the debate and asks them, instead, to adopt more measured tones that can lead to real dialogue.