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SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER: Good morning. I am particularly glad to have this opportunity to meet with Mr. Cotti to give us an opportunity to underscore the great appreciation that we have for the role that his government is playing. I also particularly want to commend his personal role in taking the leadership at a time when Switzerland is the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE. It is a year of very heavy responsibilities. First and foremost, of course, are the elections in Bosnia, where Switzerland has taken a very big responsibility. We will be discussing that here today. Switzerland is also involved, as Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, with heavy responsibilities in connection with human rights and in connection with arms control. So I am looking forward to a good discussion with the Minister. We will have an opportunity later today for some questions on this subject, but for now let me just thank you, Mr. Minister, and your government for your hospitality and also for your splendid work as Chairman-in-Office. Thank you very much, it is very nice to be here with you.
FM COTTI: I thank you, Mr. Secretary of State, for all you are doing in increasing this difficult process of peace and the great relation of general, positive frame conditions. Without your commitment, I am sure we would not have reached the steps we have already reached. As you say we have, as Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, the not-easy task for having a general judgment about the conditions for organizing these elections. We hope later, by the end of the month, to be able to give an answer to this question. The meeting you convened here in Geneva today seems to me absolutely important for making vast pressure on all parties to work in these last weeks in this direction. Thank you very much.
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