The secretary is always hopeful but thinks significant gaps remain between the Israeli and Palestinian positions. She will work to overcome those gaps but at this time has no reason to believe we're in a position to bridge those gaps. She is nether optimistic nor pessimistic but believes the process cannot go on indefinitely. |
The situation in Kosovo is quite troubling, extremely dangerous. We believe the Yugoslav National Army has been engaged in a firefight along the Albanian border with myriad deaths involved. |
the timetable for the ... grave situation we're in today. |
The U.N. Security Council should be prepared to take firm action to bring about Iraqi compliance in the event they don't change their mind in the next day or so. |
The U.S. support for the Djukanovic government is strong and unwavering. |
The U.S. will have satisfactory access to the site in order to remove fully our concerns about the nature of the site and the activities of the site. |
The whole world sees Iraq responsible for the current crisis. |
The work on Iraq, the work on the Middle East peace process and on the Asian financial crisis continues with no effect. |
There are increasing reports of atrocities against Albanian civilians in Kosovo. We are extremely alarmed by these reports. |
There are increasing reports of atrocities against Albanians. We are alarmed at the reports. We are putting a great deal of resources to check them out. |
There are some extremists, and the U.S. is going to step up its effort to enforce security along the border and enforce security in the U.S. sector. And there may be some problems, but I don't think we should blow this out of proportion. |
These actions taken as a whole are contrary to the direction that China has been urged to take by the world, |
These are in a sense Milosevic's hostages. He's refusing to allow the basic rules of the road to be implemented. That is, that international relief agencies get access to them so that they can help them provide the bare minimum. |
These are the commanders, to the best of our knowledge, of the units that are in Kosovo. |
These kind of episodes have taken place. This is not the only example -- but it is the only time we've been able to match actual videotape with overhead imagery. |