I Am Not Prepared To

France Will Insist On The Need For Updated And Responsive Institutions.

Romania And Bulgaria Were Particularly Irresponsible. If They Wanted To Diminish Their Chances Of Joining Europe They Could Not Have Found A Better Way.

The Construction Of Europe Is An Art. It Is The Art Of The Possible.

Our House Is Burning And We Look Elsewhere. Nature, Mutilated And Over-exploited, Can No Longer Reconstitute Itself And We Refuse To Admit It. Humanity Is Suffering. It Is Suffering From Poor Development, In The North As In The South, And We Are Indifferent. The Earth And Humanity Are In Peril And We Are All Responsible. It Is Time Now To Open Our Eyes

As Far As France Is Concerned, We Are Ready To Envisage Everything That Can Be Done Under Unscr 1441. [...] But I Repeat That Every Possibility Offered By The Present Resolution Must Be Explored, That There Are A Lot Of Them And They Still Leave Us With A Lot Of Leeway When It Comes To Ways Of Achieving The Objective Of Eliminating Any Weapons Of Mass Destruction Which May Exist In Iraq. I'd Like Nevertheless To Note That, As Things Stand At The Moment, I Have, To My Knowledge, No Indisputable Proof In This Sphere.