did yonumber. you do know what it is today? >> i know what it is today but i might not like what it says. a fundamental challenge is to define what it is trying to do. what is it trying to achieve and what is it that we will achieve only as allies and if we are obliged to do without allies and they would understand these answers but if the dialogue is yet to take place. >> how do you think in present circumstances we can bring the collective will closer together than it currently appears to be? >> it depends on how this result. i cannot imagine an atlantic strategy which we are not attempting to find common answers. for this point of view, figuring that it was a matter for britain to decide, i think to the extent that britain played an active role trying to add to the description, it will play an extremely important role to get an answer. it cannot be that the united states prescribes all the answers but it criticizes. but in the well understood alliance, we would go and come to some conclusion about how to preserve the issues