in order to support a diplomatic, political solution that we very much hope will come alive in coming days at the meetings taking place.

I hope that will not be necessary,

I very much hope that common sense and intelligence will prevail and an agreement will be reached in the coming days,

We must continue to do the utmost to avoid war in Macedonia. This is a crucial week ... We hope we will be able to resolve these constitutional difficulties.

We will do it sooner rather than later.

On Kosovo, let me be quite clear that NATO will not stand idly by. We will not allow a repeat of the situation of 1991 in Bosnia,