The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.