But if the threat cannot be removed peacefully, please let us not fall for the delusion that it can be safely ignored.

BBC: Blair speech - key quotes

If solutions to these problems can be arrived at peacefully and democratically, such progress will benefit not only Malaysia but the wider region, too.

WSJ: Michael Vatikiotis: Seeds of Change in Kuala Lumpur

But enforcing a sort of peace is not nearly as hard as persuading Serbs and Albanians peacefully to live side by side once more.

BBC: Mitrovica: K-For's hardest test

"My hope is that this crisis will be resolved peacefully and I think it's very important not only for Iraq, but probably for the rest of the region over there ... that this crisis be solved peacefully, " he said.

CNN: Clinton

Mr Blair's supporters argued that he was not meekly following the American line, but instead remained true to a position he has held for many years, that if Saddam Hussein would not disarm peacefully then force would have to be used.

BBC: The Tony Blair years