fundamental civil liberty of this country to protection from terrorism.

This mass terrorism is the new evil in our world today

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

He has steered his country through a most difficult and painful transition ... We now look forward to the presidential elections when the Russian people will decide on Boris Yeltsin's successor and take a further step towards embedding the democratic process.

We are angry. We are angry about extremism and about what they are doing to our country, angry about their abuse of our good nature, ... We welcome people here who share our values and our way of life. But don't meddle in extremism because if you meddle in it ... you are going back out again.

As I said to the President yesterday, this country will stand ready to help in any way that we can,