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February 4, 1992
Draft Four
DEMIREL. TS
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
DEMIREL DEPARTURE STATEMENT
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1992
Mr. Prime Minister, it has been a great pleasure and
privilege to meet with you / a man whose career stands like a
monument to democracy and human rights / Suleiman Demirel. //
Seven times the people of Turkey have sent you to serve as
Prime Minister -- an office you have served / often with daring /
always with dignity. // Your devotion to the Turkish people has
been returned by their confidence in you. No wonder you said,
when we met this past summer, "I'm going to be Prime Minister."
Once again, your countrymen have proved you right. //
Barbara and I will never forget last year's trip to Turkey.
I recall, especially, the magic of Istanbul. / The Moslem
muezzins. / The boats that graced the Straits of the Bosporous.
/ The lights that illumined the Asian and European parts of this
city -- their skyline a silhouette against the night. //
Most of all, I remember marveling at the friendship between
our countries, friendship that spans two centuries. Today, as
the Prime Minister and I mapped our path toward the future, we
spoke of friendship -- and how it nurtures ties between our
peoples. Perhaps Kemal Ataturk said it best: "Nations are bound
more by sentiments than by treaties." //
Turkey is indeed a friend of the United States. It is also
a model to others. In a region of shifting sands and changing
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tides, it endures as a beacon of stability. // I repeat what I
told the Prime Minister: The United States will support its
friend -- in its territorial integrity / its sovereignty and
stability / particularly, in its war against terrorism. //
We will work together to fortify the other pillars of our
partnership -- among them, trade / diplomacy / NATO and CSCE
membership / and a shared commitment to justice and human rights
at a time when the veil of fundamentalism shrouds progress with
prejudice and freedom with fear. //
The Prime Minister and I reflected on how, last year in the
Persian Gulf, our two countries faced aggression -- and then
faced aggression down. / Toward that end, Mr. Demirel's
government recently decided to extend the international military
force which keeps Saddam from again attacking the citizens of his
own country. // We will continue to work together through the
U.N. to see that all Iraqi citizens get the food and medicine
they need -- and the peace and freedom they deserve. //
Today, we spoke of a world reborn through the Cold War's
death -- of the plight of the new republics emerging from the old
Soviet Union. Already, Turkey and the United States have joined
hands to feed mouths -- rushing goods through Project Hope to
needy friends in the Caucasus and Central Asia. / I wish to
announce that our governments will expand that cooperation. We
will seek new ways to help our new friends build democracy /
recreate their governments / and join the community of nations.
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Mr. Prime Minister, you once said, "Every question will be
answered
discussion will be open and free." In that
spirit, we tackled the question of Turkish-Greek relations. / I
applaud your government's commitment to improve relations with
your neighbor, and am eager to see convened an international
conference to approve the U.N. draft agreement on Cyprus. / I
believe this plan offers the best hope for transforming the cycle
of "an eye for an eye" into one which offers "a hand for a hand."
Above all, we leave with the faith that our talks have
covered much ground -- and charted new horizons. / The road
toward progress may at times be difficult. It need not be
lonely. / An old Turkish proverb reminds us, "A long journey is
shortened by good companions." Mr. Prime Minister, let us make
that journey together -- as we have before / as we will again. /
May God bless the peoples of Turkey, and the United States of
America.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 20, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
UPON DEPARTURE
The South Grounds
1:19 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted to
have welcomed you on your first official visit to Washington and to
have shared very profitable, congenial talks.
Prime Minister Bildt comes here at a time when Europe is
being transformed, and when Sweden itself is beginning a new chapter
in its history. As the Prime Minister remarked on his election night
last September, the winds of political change blowing through Europe
have finally reached Sweden.
Well, he understands well his nation's past. Just more
than 100 year ago, his great great grandfather was Prime Minister.
But even more, Prime Minister Bildt represents a rising generation of
leadership for a people seeking a new role in Europe and a new birth
of freedom and initiative in Swedish domestic policy.
We welcome Sweden's desire to play a more active part in
the emerging global community. The Prime Minister is committed to
democracy, to free markets. And I know that as active partners in
the common endeavor to create a free, open and prosperous world, the
United States and Sweden will make a real difference.
Sweden and the U.S. share a deep and unswerving
commitment to peace, and Sweden is a vital partner in our global
nonproliferation efforts. A model peacekeeper, Sweden has shown its
commitment to this function of collective security many times with
distinction in the United Nations system. Sweden has taken a firm
stand against terrorism, supporting our efforts to bring to justice
those who sabotaged Pan Am Flight 103. And during the Gulf war,
Sweden provided humanitarian and economic assistance.
Our partnership in the service of freedom and democracy
is not a new one. Americans and Swedes share more than 350 years of
friendship, dating back to 1638 when the kingdom of Sweden
established a colony along the Christina River in Delaware. American
patriots of Swedish origin fought in our revolutionary war and signed
the declaration of independence. Sweden was one of the first nations
to sign a treaty of friendship and commerce with a newly independent
United States.
That legacy of partnership continues today on
contemporary issues -- for example, through the new investor visa
arrangements our government agreed upon today. And after today's
talks I am confident that this friendship will continue to flourish.
Mr. Prime Minister, let me explain to you our sincere
thanks for this new spirit of cooperation and friendship. It
strengthens our relations. And your visit has clearly helped build
the basis for a solid partnership as we face together the challenges
that lie ahead.
Thank you for coming our way. And the best of luck to
you, sir.
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PRIME MINISTER BILDT: Thank you, Mr. President, for
your very warm words. They certainly show the degree of
understanding between the two of us and between our two countries on
the crucial issues of our time. Indeed, I am convinced that this
meeting of ours today will be seen as the starting point for a closer
relationship between Sweden and the United States.
We share the ideals of democracy, of freedom, of the
rule of law, and of a free market economy. But while the Cold War
has certainly been warmed, we have yet to secure the new peace. And
to secure that new peace will be the great challenge for both of our
nations during the 1990s.
If there is one single message that I would like to
bring to you we've been discussing this -- in your country, Mr.
President, it is that the active involvement of the United States
will be as indispensable in the 1990s, when it comes to the solution
of all of these issues, as it has been in the past. We need the
vision, the determination and the strength of the United Nations when
it comes to securing this new peace.
Sweden is changing its policies to make our country a
more active partner in the building of the new European future. We
are entering the European union in order to be part of the core and
the engine of the emerging new Europe. We are extending cooperation
across the Baltic Sea to the newly-independent nations of Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania, as well as to the democratic Russia. And we
are energizing our own economy and our own society by the new
policies demanded by the new times.
Together we must do whatever we can to assist the
transformation of the new states and democracies of Central and
Eastern Europe. It is by doing this that we can secure the new peace
and prevent a return not only to the confrontation of the past half
century, but also to the devastating disorders of the centuries
before. That must not be allowed to happen.
But the cooperation between us stretches further than
the building of the new system of cooperation in Europe. Let me just
mention the efforts to secure a lasting peace in Middle East; the
intercession of South Africa, the new role to be played by United
Nations; the new global environment challenges to be discussed in Rio
de Janeiro in June; the work to stop and punish terrorists and to
hold the proliferations of weapons on mass destruction; and not the
least, the vital efforts now underway to secure free trade through a
successful completion of the Uruguay Round. On these and many other
issues, Sweden and the United States have every reason to increase
contact and cooperation.
Mr. President, I well remember when first as a young
student I stood by the Lincoln Memorial down there and read those so
rightly famous lines of Lincoln, of the Gettysburg Address: that
"government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
perish from the Earth." And to secure just that: "government of the
people, by the people, and for the people" through the world is to
secure the new peace that the dramatic changes of the last few years
have finally made possible.
Thank you very much, Mr. President.
END
1:25 P.M. EST
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
December 12, 1991
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AND PRIME MINISTER CONSTANTINOS MITSOTAKIS
UPON DEPARTURE
The South Lawn
1:19 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Prime Minister and distinguished
members of the Greek government, five months ago, I visited Athens
-- the first visit by an American President to Greece in more than a
generation. Today, in welcoming Prime Minister Mitsotakis to the
White House, our two countries reaffirm the value of close contact to
address common concern.
Mr. Prime Minister, in the past three years, we've
witnessed a world transformed -- and your continent has been right at
the center of change. America sees Greece as a partner in meeting
many of the challenges that cross borders and threaten the peace --,
terrorism, international drug trade, ethnic conflict.
In the Balkans, in the new Europe, in Cyprus, Greece
remains a factor for stability, a champion of human rights -- a
partner in the quest to forge a new world order -- peaceful,
prosperous and free.
The U.S. continues to be as concerned as we have been in
the past with Greece's security and the sanctity of its borders. We
continue to help Greece strengthen its defenses. And we support the
progress your nation has made toward economic reform, liberalizing
trade and investment.
Opening Greek markets to investment from the United
States and other nations will mean jobs and better living standards
for Greeks and Americans alike.
Our meetings today also focused on challenges that stand
as obstacles to lasting peace in your corner of the world: The long-
standing conflict in Cyprus -- and Yugoslavia's fratricidal civil
war.
Let me start with Yugoslavia. Who can fail to be moved
by these heartrending images -- carnage and suffering on a scale that
recalls the horrors of the Second World War rather than the hopes of
the new era we've now entered. The U.S. supports the European
Community's efforts, the EC's efforts, including economic sanctions,
to stop the fighting.
We remain convinced that a negotiated settlement --
helped along by the United Nations and the interested international
community is possible, necessary and certainly long overdue.
In the case of Cyprus, I again offer the good offices of
the United States to overcome a source of bitter conflict between two
of our valued allies. We continue to hope for an international high-
level meeting on Cyprus as early as possible in 1992.
with good-faith negotiations -- and the continued
efforts of the United Nations Secretary General, we can make progress
in producing a settlement acceptable to all parties.
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Mr. Prime Minister, let me just close by simply saying
that Greece holds great meaning for Americans: Not only the millions
who trace their own ancestry to your country, but, as relative
newcomers now in our third century of democracy, as a people who
revere Greece as the birthplace of democracy more than two millennia
ago.
It's been a very special pleasure having this
opportunity to meet with you again, to have you and your able team
here in Washington, D.C. today, and to wish Greece on behalf of all
Americans every blessings for the new year.
All yours.
PRIME MINISTER MITSOTAKIS: I would like first to
express my heartfelt thanks to President Bush for inviting me to
Washington and receiving me at the White House so warmly. At this
moment in history when democracy's flourishing throughout the world,
it is a great honor for me as Prime Minister of Greece, where
democracy was born 2,500 years ago, to come for an official visit to
the United States, the champion of democracy in our times.
The love of freedom and faith in democracy are two of
the important ties that form a unique bond between Greece and the
United States. And I welcome the opportunity this visit has given me
to reinforce our special relationship in this season of hope and
renewal.
I am especially pleased that this visit allowed me to
continue my private talks with President Bush and with our
delegations to expand on the substantial and fruitful discussions we
had in Greece last summer.
As might be expected, we exchanged views on world
developments and focused closely on what is happening in our region,
the Balkans, where, as you know, Greece is playing an essential role
in promoting peace and stability.
We had a lengthy discussion on the Cyprus question, and
I thanked President Bush for his personal commitment to help bring
about a fair settlement that will end the long agony of the Cypriot
people.
I am certain that with the strong support of the
President, the new Secretary General of the United Nations, building
on the achievements of his worthy predecessor, will be able to lead
the efforts of all of us to a speedy and successful conclusion on
Cyprus.
I want to stress that our talks marked one more
milestone in the improving relations between our two countries,
which, as you know, have made spectacular progress in the past two
years.
The ties between Greece and the United States are strong
and special. We fought in two world wars together and waged a joint
struggle to stop the spread of totalitarianism. But what makes it
such a profound pleasure for all Greeks who come to the United States
is that we recognize the highest ideals of this nation as native to
our own. I am very confident that the special relationship between
Greece and the United States, which reflects the common values of our
two peoples and the strong friendship they have fostered will grow
even stronger in the years ahead.
Let me conclude by wishing everyone in the United States
a very happy holiday season.
END
1:30 P.M. EST