"Infiltration and cross-border violence, and the lethality, are down from this time last year," he said at a news conference today in the Pakistani capital.
"Of course, we don't support the presence of foreign forces in the region," he said at his residence here in the Yemeni capital.
"There is still a state of tension, with suspicion and mistrust on both sides," President Ion Iliescu said in the capital.
"This isn't democracy in Hungary, it's anarchy," a teen-age skinhead said at a recent rally in the capital.
"Even the traffic was disciplined during the emergency," a wealthy hotel owner said at a recent dinner in the capital.
"The main point which we are still negotiating is about the area of autonomy," he said at a news conference in the Iraqi capital.
"Even when they get attacked, you wonder if they're reacting," one Western diplomat said in the capital, Kinshasa.
Sam Nunn the defense-policy sage has had a very good year, party insiders and pundits are saying in the capital as 1990 comes to a close.
"The peace process is going through a difficult time," said a Western diplomat here in the Pakistani capital last weekend.
"There are no experts in our country who know how to run the economy,"said a local agricultural businessman in the capital, Yangon, formerly called Rangoon.