Miss Albania 2004

QUESTION: Will the Secretary take up with the Saudis the criticism the commission leveled against the way the State Department has dealt with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan? ...

Miss, in the back, you've had a question. ...

QUESTION: Last week, Secretary General Annan lamented the fact that the international community had not done more to help the people of Darfur; specifically, he said that they don't even have six helicopters, which are necessary to move humanitarian equipment and food into Darfur. And he also said the international community should have done more to raise funds for humanitarian aspects to the relief mission. I think he said they were something like $200 million short. ... [Read More]

U.S. Initiatives At NATO's Istanbul Summit

In Bosnia, NATO can look back with a sense of accomplishment at the success of the mission it undertook in 1995 at Dayton. NATO brought peace and provided the security umbrella under which the Bosnian people, the UN, the EU and the OSCE could work to reconstruct the country and to address the underlying factors that led to conflict. At Istanbul, NATO will announce that its Stability Force (SFOR) has completed its mission and will terminate at the end of 2004. NATO forces went into Bosnia to stop a war, enforce a peace and separate two warring armies in the same state. That has been accomplished and the security situation has changed dramatically. ... [Read More]