Gerhard Schroeder Accept Quotations

There is fear in Europe that the administration will pay no attention to the aims defined in Kyoto, ... It is important that the United States accept its responsibility for the world climate. They are the biggest economy in the world and the heaviest energy consumers. This is one of those issues where one can say from a basis of real friendship: 'Dear friends, we are of the opinion that if you abandon Kyoto, you are in the wrong.'

We are both of the opinion, and the French president said that quite clearly yesterday, that one can never accept it when it is said that war is unavoidable,

This is not about my prerogatives and absolutely not about me as a person, ... It is about my party's prerogative for political leadership and only the party leaders can decide on that. I will accept any decision. I do not want to stand in the way of a development that allows the continuation of the (economic) reforms I initiated and the formation of a stable government in Germany.

I made clear I cannot accept the precondition that we must cease military activities first and then start negotiating. I'm sure the NATO partners see it the same way,

It is up to the Yugoslav authorities to fully accept the international demands and begin immediately with their implementation,