Alberto Fujimori quotes:

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside.

I expect that after the election and the results that the international community will understand which was the framework of this process and under which law we have done this process.

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people."

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.