"Whingeing about the news media won't solve any problems," one delegate told colleagues.

Sometimes delegates tell me that they get more good results working in private.

The delegates told Washington to use men enlisted for fixed terms as temporary garrisons.

The American delegates also told their counterparts that any agreement acceptable to the United States must maintain economic growth, the official said.

Israel's delegate, Yaakov Levy, told the committee's 10 experts that the country "must often fight with one hand tied behind its back."

He and other Serbian delegates told the mediators they would not accept foreign peacekeeping forces on Serbian territory.

Their delegates told Earth so officially, before they left.

The delegates gave him a wish list and told him, "Give us this, give us that."

"Permit me to introduce myself," the delegate told him.

In addition, delegates are telling themselves, the Lib Dems have looked capable in government.