What I want from authorities -- from Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, the prime minister and senior officials -- are words of peace.

I promise: I will be a prime minister to everyone. For right and left, for settlers, Haredim, Druze, Arabs, Circassians. I will be prime minister for the center and for the periphery, for students and senior citizens.

In the name of the sacred respect of life under Islam and of all humanitarian principles, we appeal to the humanity of the kidnappers for them to save the life of this Frenchman.

I thank the ambassador for taking this initiative, which was aimed at easing tensions.

The CFCM must tackle the problem of training imams, but the state must also help us with a minimum of financing to create a training institute.

The CFCM must tackle the problem of training imams, but the state must also help us with a minimum of financing to create a training institute,