11.   When basic principles are in conflict, democracies work out compromises that reflect the majority and protect the minority.

12.   Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan urged India on Thursday to protect religious minorities living there.

13.   Protecting minorities is a police issue.

14.   A similar no-fly zone in southern Iraq has been set up to protect Shiite minorities.

15.   A similar no-fly zone was also set up in southern Iraq to protect Shiite minorities.

16.   Another no-fly zone was set up in southern Iraq to protect Shiite minorities.

17.   Another no-fly zone was also set up in southern Iraq to protect Shiite minorities.

18.   Blaming NATO-led peacekeepers deployed in Kosovo for failing to protect minority Serbs there, Milosevic called for an end to their mission.

19.   British Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock said the United States and Britain were enforcing the no-fly zones as a way to protect minorities in northern and southern Iraq.

20.   China and other critics have said no U.N. resolution explicitly authorizes military force to protect Iraqi minorities.