41.   Scharping instead said he favoured participation in humanitarian operations along the lines of those which German soldiers joined in Somalia.

42.   Scharping said that at the proposed talks between the government and the SPD, the party would be represented by himself and Lafontaine, among others.

43.   Scharping said in a recent interview that the SPD never had been and never would be a pacifist party.

44.   Scharping said Germany was making available its NBC units for the anti-terrorist fight at the wish of the United States.

45.   Scharping said he favored a political solution in the anti-terrorist fight against Iraq rather than the military option towards which the Americans seem to be edging.

46.   Scharping said in Kabul last month that a decision on whether to extend the ISAF mandate was expected by April.

47.   Scharping said that he favored a political solution in the anti-terrorist fight against Iraq rather than the military option towards which the Americans seem to be edging.