I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

By and large my relations with the US were good.

If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.

To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict.