We're trying to galvanize European nations to take as many refugees as possible.

We would ... consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means as a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States.

We would expect President Clinton and President Kim to discuss this at length.

We will continue to encourage the two sides to address key issues,

We have been deeply outraged by both the massacres at Racak and by Belgrade's confrontational and destructive response to the justifiable international anger,

We have been in touch with both sides, and it is our view they should continue to stay engaged to see if they can make progress.

The kind of heavy-handed intimidation by the Serb police is emblematic of the repressive nature of (Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Kosovo, which sparked the current crisis.

The diplomat in question no longer enjoys the privileges and immunities conferred by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. He has been expelled from the United States for not voluntarily departing by the appointed time. We do not have any further comments on the case.

We have been in touch with senior levels of the Italian government to express our view that Ocalan must not go free, and we are concurrently consulting with the Germans, the Italians and the Turkish authorities regarding these reported developments,

We come at this problem of Iraqi compliance with a high degree of skepticism about their (Iraq's) intentions.