The demonstrations, death, arrests and Maoist attacks in the past few days have shown there is more insecurity, not less.

We encourage them to take steps. To stop terror attacks, to prevent them from happening. And we urge them also to act to dismantle terrorist organizations.

We would like to see this resolved as quickly and as peacefully as possible.

We have welcomed recent steps by President Abbas to implement a strategy that outlaws the public display of arms ... end violence and dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism.

We've come quite a ways and have a different relationship with Libya than we had three, four years ago. But there are still issues that need to be resolved, and we're working on those issues.

This is all part of our program of reviewing our assistance programs.