We should also make it clear that we will favor India in all major regional disputes.

A separate working group met tonight on regional disputes and other issues.

The dialogue has broadened considerably to include human rights, regional disputes and other issues that the Russians never used to want to talk about.

And third, work with the West in positive, practical, not merely rhetorical, steps toward diplomatic solution to these regional disputes around the world.

The regional disputes run far beyond one issue, though.

The Chinese leadership continues to define all its regional territorial disputes as strictly domestic matters.

The group planned to set up a religious court to arbitrate regional disputes.

Third, work with us to end regional disputes.

We are concerned about the continuing violence against defenceless civilian populations in the name of regional and religious disputes.

Sometimes our role in regional disputes is and will be highly public.