1. "Its not easy for me to talk about my family," she says, very close to tears.

2. Just three days earlier, six members of her family were killed in an Israeli bombing raid on their village. Its not easy for me to talk about my family, she says, very close to tears.

3. Think of all the people who are out politicking now and trying to negotiate out and find a formula for a government that will give enough confidence to the Iraqi people that they can put their faith in it.В Thats a big thing theyre doing.В Its not easy.

4. Despite the proud, indigenous tradition of "liming" - of hanging out with friends over a Carib beer or rum and Coke - its not easy for a visitor to feel laid-back: the streets are frantic, the seafronts polluted by ships that crowd the port, your ears battered by the sound of new buildings going up.

5. After the end of the Cold War, I think it drifted for a while.В And was its agenda going to be development?В Was its agenda going to be continuing to say hostile things about Israel?В And what was its agenda going to be?В And I do think, as I said, you know, its not easy to bring 1'1 countries together around anything, but the post-Iraq phase, where I do think people have to confront the question what happens when you cannot take corrective action, has been a period where I think that agenda is slowly changing.В And its one reason that for all the frustrations, for all of the, you know, you cant get reform, its hard to get things through, it is an institution that could be moving in ways that are quite favorable to our agenda.