They threaten us. Their threats and sanctions have made us independent.

We want our rights and nothing more, and we will resist until our last drop of blood.

Bush talks of regime change or change of its behavior, which is the same. It means no Islamic regime.

This is a psychological war. This nation is not a nation to yield to such pressures.

They consider Egypt a transit country and us as a travel agency. The perception that everyone that comes here gets refugee status and will be resettled is a wrong perception. It is not in our hands. He has to satisfy certain criteria of particular stipulations of the specific host country. And we don't have a hand in this. So the idea of going to the UN and the UN will give you a ticket to go to dreamland is a myth.

Although the ASEAN-US dialog is 28 years old this year, I feel this still suffers a considerable problem with expectations which do not match,