We're going to continue to be deeply engaged and working with the parties.

Talk is cheap. What they're engaged in is stirring up a lot of chaff. They've started up their diplomatic fog machine here.

deeply and personally engaged in the process from before the hurricane.

Discussions are ongoing, we're fully engaged and we'll continue to be so.

There are five other parties ready to come back without precondition and at an early date. We're one of them, the Japanese, the South Koreans, the Chinese and the Russians. We're all ready to go back.

I think that Mr. Haddam's remarks raise some deeply troubling issues as to what exactly was going on during the period in time in question.