[Local officials] will be able to impose curfews on the areas where this decision applies, ... It is necessary to accelerate the return to calm.

Commitments have been made and France will live up to them.

Everything will be done ... with the Venezuelan authorities ... to shed light upon the reasons, circumstances and responsibilities in this terrible tragedy,

France , like the European Union, will always be at the side of those who, in Israel and among the Palestinians, will want peace and will do what is necessary to bring it about,

I know that the French people will understand that we had to act, ... Before the unjustified and incomprehensible obstinacy of President Milosevic, the allies unanimously agreed that there was no other choice than to intervene militarily against targeted Serbian objectives. This in order to contain a tragedy which endangers the stability of the Balkans more and more.

The United States will continue to have an approach of respecting nations that agree with us and respecting nations that disagree with us.