What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.