If he [Annan] can talk to both sides and in that way be of help, then he will do it.

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Both sides should be pleased with it. If we come to a point where Europeans say, 'This isn't to our benefit', then it won't go any further, ... But if we want to have a peaceful world, where we work together, and where people are happy to live together and help each other, then this is the way.

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The Danish government urges all leaders, political and religious, in the countries concerned to call on their populations to remain calm and refrain from violence.

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Denmark and Canada can't promote peaceful resolution of the world's conflicts, only to reveal that we can't do it ourselves. So we agreed to start a dialogue about the Hans Island problem, and say we do not accept flag wars. It won't happen again.

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Much depends on what happens when the imams hold their Friday prayers.

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We will ensure that there will be no more flag wars.

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Now they (the Palestinians) are having elections and then we will see who will become leader after the election but whoever is leader is the person the European Union will be talking to.

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The proposals of the European Union are how to quickly bring the peace process back on track, ... There's a limit to what people can endure and it's obvious that the Palestinian people [are] close to that limit. That's why we have created this process where we combine the call for election with the vision about the two states side by side living in peace.

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Denmark's opinion is that we support the decision from December 2004, where a proposal was made and conditions for negotiations were set. It is an open process, where there is no predetermined finish, though membership is, of course, the ultimate goal.

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