"Ethiopia has liberated all its territory, and considers the war over," said Selome Taddesse, the government spokeswoman.

"We would like to bring out the truth about Syria's role," said Buthaina Shaban, a government spokeswoman.

"Americans tend to see things only in their own terms," Bouthaina Shaaban, a government spokeswoman, said in an interview.

A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "We are determined to address the root causes of child poverty.

Gina Talamona, a government spokeswoman, said only that "the antitrust division is looking at the possibility of anticompetitive practices in the fine art auction industry."

"Around 20,000 families here live either directly or indirectly from wine," explained a regional government spokeswoman, Flor Raposo Perez.

On Thursday, a government spokeswoman said there was no evidence that the outbreak of avian flu had originated in China.

A government spokeswoman, Sharmilla Farooqi, later claimed that 5 police officers were known to be among the fatalities of this truck bombing.

"It's not democratic, or civilized, really," said Bouthaina Shaaban, a government spokeswoman, in an interview.

A government spokeswoman said that "people who have been deported from another country are refused entry" to New Zealand.