It is when this reasonable expectation of safety is shattered by direct involuntary involvement with senseless crime that public reaction surfaces in our mail and in our media.

3. Considers this war to be a catastrophe for the entire region and the whole world, because it threatens international security and is likely to lead to permanent instability in the region, the break-up of Iraq and worsening tension, including an increase in terrorism;

I know that some controversy has arisen – and Mrs Attwooll mentioned this – over the question of aid for measures to improve safety in navigation; working conditions; and hygiene on board fishing vessels.

Interventions financed under this Regulation may comprise any non-combat activities aimed at counteracting or resolving emerging crises and serious threats or outbreaks of conflict, all logistical measures necessary for the planning, implementation, monitoring and auditing of such interventions, including information and communication management, technical assistance and training, the purchase and/or delivery of essential products and equipment, safe transport and all administrative expenditure related to such measures as well as the measures necessary to strengthen the Community's coordination with Member States and other donor countrie ...[+++]s, international organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their representatives.

Equal partnership requires that the US commitment to the security of Europe should not be limited to conflicts which threaten to break out on territories of the allies.

Since I last spoke to an IISS audience, there have been a number of important changes affecting European security, including the break-up of the Soviet Union, the continuing conflict in what was Yugoslavia, the dissolution of Czechoslovakia and the successful integration of East Germany into the European Community.