On behalf of the leaders of all 19-member delegations to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, I wish to express the Assembly's heartfelt condolences to the American people.

We believe that the terrorist atrocities committed against the United States on Tuesday 11 September were also an attack on the principles and values shared by the NATO nations and indeed the entire community of democratic nations.

We wholeheartedly support the declaration made on 12 September by the North Atlantic Council, and we will fully support member governments in providing the United States any and all the diplomatic, political, and, if required, military means at their disposal in order to deal with the perpetrators of this outrage.

As the representatives of parliamentary democracy within the Alliance, we declare our solidarity with our friends and colleagues in the United States.