Hoop Scheffer
Hoop Scheffer
children died direct fear innocent mostly panic result sowing terrorists tragedy women
This tragedy was the direct result of terrorism; hundreds of innocent people, mostly women and children, have died because of the fear and panic that terrorists are sowing in Iraq,
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Belarus was one of the issues discussed where Russia and the alliance are quite far apart.
airlines civilian difficult national notion passengers
This is an awfully difficult subject. The notion of national sovereignty is very strong. To go after civilian airlines with passengers on them, we'll defer on that.
nato relief situation
It is unprecedented. NATO is not a humanitarian relief organization, but the situation is so serious.
cooperation council effective forum practical
The NATO-Russia council has become an effective forum for ... practical cooperation,
allies behalf british express nato solidarity speak sympathy
I know I speak on behalf of all NATO allies when I express our sympathy for and solidarity with the British people,
engineers equipment mention pakistan send soon sort winter
He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.
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It is a dangerous mission, but NATO cannot afford to fail. Realism demands that there will be more incidents, there will be more casualties, but NATO will stand firm.
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NATO is not a humanitarian organization. NATO is playing its role within the framework of what it is,