military planning is well under way in NATO, with the full support of EU member states, in case diplomacy alone proves inadequate.

I think all of our experience with (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there,

The declaration also outlines specific areas of U.K.-French military cooperation such as shared use of military transport assets and developing further our close cooperation on defense requirements,

Unless there is a recommendation that comes forward from our military commanders that they require more troops, we don't provide them,

Low-cost carriers are reluctant to jump into the international arena. It requires long planning horizons, sometimes years of diplomacy.

a very strong and clear declaration of our support and solidarity for the United States and secondly a series of specific measures we will take -- both European and national.