The outcome of the summit was not all we had hoped for. The agenda became loaded as the process went along.

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I think there is consternation and perhaps a sense of injury at the tone and substance of the letter.

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more importantly, it is imperative that the U.N. should be provided with adequate financial resources to respond quickly and effectively to such disasters.

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It is understandable that the patience of some important members of the Security Council is running out. All people of goodwill desire that all the possibilities for a peaceful resolution of this crisis should be exhausted before the council may decide to bring into play the enforcement mechanism. The decision for the use of force cannot be an easy one for anyone. For Pakistan, an Islamic country from the region, such a decision will be a most difficult one. And we would therefore like to see every effort exhausted for a peaceful resolution of this crisis.

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Pakistan is against nonproliferation because it is always accompanied by disarmament. If [disarmament is] applied to some countries and not others, it will be dangerous to the security of the world This is not an issue of reaching compromises on language, this is an issue of national security.

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I have no idea why my name or, in fact, any Pakistani name should have been pulled up. There are plenty of targets around, even for a fake plot. So, that was a bit surprising, to put it mildly,

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We are looking at very, very difficult negotiations in the days ahead,

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This increasingly became the likely outcome over the past few days, if not weeks, so it's not a surprise. I think the next stage has to be a healing process.

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We are looking at very, very difficult negotiations in the days ahead, ... strong positions, and many of us do have very strongly held positions. That's the nature of the game. My only regret is we didn't get into the negotiations early enough.

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We have said right from the start, without negotiations, the document is not going anywhere. So we're happy finally that there's a recognition there has to be face-to-face negotiations. These will be difficult, these are a bit late. But it's not an impossible task,

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