As I said to the President yesterday, this country will stand ready to help in any way that we can,

We hope that this move, along with other efforts being made at international level, will help bring about a reduction in oil prices in the very near future.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, ... But all economies know that the only sensible, long-term way to develop is to do it on a sustainable basis.

He has steered his country through a most difficult and painful transition ... We now look forward to the presidential elections when the Russian people will decide on Boris Yeltsin's successor and take a further step towards embedding the democratic process.

We are angry. We are angry about extremism and about what they are doing to our country, angry about their abuse of our good nature, ... We welcome people here who share our values and our way of life. But don't meddle in extremism because if you meddle in it ... you are going back out again.

what we hold dear in this country and in other civilized nations throughout the world.