It's been a core element of our view and the view of the European three, and certainly of the Russian Federation, that no enrichment in Iran is permissible.

We certainly are hoping for unanimity among the five permanent members. But unanimity or not, we are prepared to move forward.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

Chernomyrdin is known as an opportunist, the one who cares more about foreign interests than core Russian or Yugoslav interests.