Our goal is to foil government plans to hold the municipal elections and to break the backbone of the autocratic regime.

The government is responsible for pushing the Maoists to break the cease-fire.

We will not be threatened by the government actions. The arrests and restrictions will not stop our rally; instead it has added fuel to our movement to restore democracy.

The blockade is causing more hardship to the public than the royal government.

[Bildt claimed Milosevic is naive in his hopes that Karadzic would be knocked out of government by elections.] He wants to get rid of Karadzic, that's for sure, but only through elections, ... I've been telling him that's not good enough, that Karadzic has to be gone before then.

The government in Islamabad must ensure that these elections are open, free and fair.