[The Iraqi offer] shows the necessity of standing firm, … It shows the necessity of our determination and our united resolve that the Iraqi regime comply fully and unconditionally with the requirements of the U.N....

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.

Mr. Haider is still going to be governor, as I understand the reports, and still going to be in the party. So the question is what the party’s role will be in the Austrian government.

People might want to wish away the existence of Serbs. But there are Serbs there. And there have been provocations on both sides in Kosovo.

We’re trying to galvanize European nations to take as many refugees as possible.

Ambassador Holbrooke will convey to the authorities in Belgrade the necessity for full compliance with all of their commitments to the international community and for maximum restraint in the period leading up to the March...

During the course of the Shepherdstown peace talks this week, we have had intense negotiations on all the key issues.

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.

I don’t think people are talking about doubling or tripling the overall troop contingent, but rather trying to make sure that everybody is doing what they can.

These are the commanders, to the best of our knowledge, of the units that are in Kosovo.

The fact that Iraq is exporting nursing supplies (in exchange) for hard currency, in violation of sanctions, while babies and children are suffering from malnutrition is yet another indication of the Iraqi regime’s cynical disregard...

We are telling them it’s a very bad idea for him to come right now.

Such incidents … illustrate the need for the two countries to resolve their differences through dialogue,

we have credible evidence, or we wouldn’t be in this situation of demanding this kind of direct discussion on this subject.

We’re not moving ahead at the pace that one would expect if we’re going to get everything done.

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Our understanding is that the Contact Group in New York has agreed to a consensus text of a U.N. Security Council resolution.

That effort is failing completely and totally. We don’t see a point in negotiations.

[Albright] will be explaining to the Chinese and to Zhu Rongji specifically that if he and the Chinese want their trip to the United States to be a success, that it’s got to go beyond...

he will be able to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction in a matter of months, not years.

Those are major sub-systems, missiles or key production facilities for missiles. So they’re big and significant items.

the King will help bring home the importance of making tough choices for peace.

The citizen appeared to be in good health and made no complaints of mistreatment, and he indicated that he expects this matter to be resolved in a short time.

That is a sure-fire way to give President Milosevic another pretext to kill innocent Albanians.

an indefinite limbo is dangerous because it just increases the window for these extremists and opponents of peace to try to kill it.

We don’t comment on alleged asylum requests.

a particularly helpful gesture.

I think the general feeling by all concerned was that they were creating a constructive and pragmatic relationship, atmosphere.

it is not beneficial for either side to take steps which make holding … substantive cross-strait dialogue more difficult.

We have been in touch with both sides, and it is our view they should continue to stay engaged to see if they can make progress.

We are not saying that these individuals are, to our knowledge, directly responsible for war crimes,

We will continue to encourage the two sides to address key issues,

What we have said is that our goal is to complete the work, if possible, by Sunday. And we don’t want to speculate what would happen after Sunday.

If there are civilians who are dying, it is (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein’s fault.

whether they want a peace agreement rather than a catastrophe.

This bargain that we struck with North Korea is working. We think that it increases the chances that North Korea’s nuclear program will stay frozen, and eventually be dismantled.

For our part, the administration hopes to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians significantly over the next five years.

We do not expect to be able to achieve a core agreement in one round of negotiations.

We have no illusions about China an d will continue to operate with the expectation that China, like many other countries, will seek to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses.

Secretary Albright will do what she always does and that is tell it like it is on the subject of human rights. There has been an unfortunate deplorable pattern of crackdowns on political dissent.

The air campaign will continue, and we will continue to make diplomatic efforts with our G-8 colleagues toward a peaceful resolution of this conflict.

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The ministers are in intensive discussions with Milutinovic and with the Kosovar Albanians. If we aren’t able to reach an agreement, we will say so and explain why.

They encountered no denial of access, … The Serb police presence is much smaller in the countryside than on Sunday, and the Serb police are generally departing the countryside.

The government’s failure to provide equal protection to all of its citizens and its refusal to implement court orders have grave implications for the rule of law in Zimbabwe.

It would be a grave mistake for people to test their willingness to defend themselves.

The G-8 summit is about personal chemistry, and there are two big problems. The president thinks (German) Chancellor (Gerhard) Schroeder lied to him, and the president thinks that Jacques Chirac screwed him.

Saddam is again pushing the canard that sanctions — rather than the misrule and the cynical manipulation of his own people that Saddam Hussein propagates — are responsible for the suffering of the Iraqi people.

We do expect to be making decisions on these visa applications fairly quickly.

The kind of heavy-handed intimidation by the Serb police is emblematic of the repressive nature of (Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic’s regime in Kosovo, which sparked the current crisis.