Both conversations covered the range of issues following from Saddam Hussein's continued violation of UN Security Council resolutions, ... The prime minister will continue to discuss these issues with other leaders.

This is going to be discussed and decided upon by the UN Security Council. That is a very important step. We couldn't get agreement on that before, we've got agreement on it now.

The circumstances of our national security have now self-evidently changed,

There was no real disagreement as to subsistence, ... It was essential that the treaty be upheld in full, that there was no question whatever of going against any provision of the treaty, and in particular that Mr. Duisenberg having made it clear that he did not desire to serve the full term of eight years, that the decision as to when he goes is his and his decision alone.

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.