We also believe that elements of the Iranian regime may have been involved more directly in planning, |
We are all agreed that it is extremely important that as quickly as possible there is a broad-based multi-ethnic civil administration in Afghanistan. |
We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution, |
We are awaiting the police assessment of the video, |
We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy. |
We are working on the basis it is a kidnapping, |
We believe the public will be better served if such warnings are used more sparingly. |
We can't be sure there will be free and fair elections, |
We can't get into a situation of bargaining with terrorists because this would put many more people's lives at risk, not only in Iraq but around the world, |
We cannot afford to get this wrong, |
We cannot get into a situation, and I believe the family understand this, where we start bargaining with terrorists and kidnappers, because if we were to, we would not make Iraq or anywhere else safer, |
We continue to argue with our European colleagues about the importance of fairness when it comes to compensation and transitional regimes for sugar and for bananas and for other commodities . . . . |
We do have, I think, a right to say that we've got to be able to deal Mr A, or Mr B, or Mr C. We can't deal with Mr Nobody. And that's the problem, OK? |
We don't have to make a decision today about this. I think the appropriate place for that to be announced is to the British parliament and there'll be a statement from me in exactly a week's time when parliament reassembles. |
We don't rule out the possibility of military action and neither in our view should anybody else. |