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Some Countries Such As Iran And Syria Are Using The Commotion To Distract Attention From Their Own Problems With The International Community. The Palestinians, Who Have Been Deeply Divided Since Their Election, Have Found A Common Enemy In Denmark That Unites Them. Extremists And Fundamentalists Are Exploiting The Conflict To Promote Their Radical Agenda And Win New Members.

Ten Years Ago U.s. Defence Investment Represented Almost Half Of All Defence Expenditure In The Whole Alliance. Today It Is 75%. This Increasing Economic Gap May Also Lead To An Increasing Technology Gap Which Will Almost Hamper The Inter-operability Between Our Forces.

That's What It's Like When People Have Crawled Very High Up In A Tree, Then They Sometimes Need Help To Get Down With Ladders And Ropes And Other Instruments.

We're Strongly In Favor Of The U.n. Plan For A Solution To The Cyprus Conflict. Hopefully A Solution Can Be Found Before The End Of This Summit, But We Cannot And Will Not Let It Block Our Decisions On Enlargement.

More Than Forty Years Of Communist Rule In Central And Eastern Europe Resulted In An Unhappy And Artificial Division Of Europe. It Is This Dark Chapter Of European History That We Now Have The Opportunity To Close.