We're making great progress.

Our goal is to redeploy U.S. forces once there is no longer a need for enhanced security at the Embassy and a requirement to maintain an on-scene evacuation capability.

Today more than 300,000 people receive services under the various programs supported by the Ryan White CARE Act.

Trade is also a means of fostering understanding and stability around the world.

We do not intend that U.S. Armed Forces deployed to Liberia become involved in hostilities.

This country continues to care about the thousands of our fellow citizens affected by the AIDS epidemic.

Disengagement from Asia, a region where we have fought three wars in this century, is simply not an option.

Our Nation's prosperity depends in large part on our ability to develop and produce high-quality products.

AIDS has taken too many friends and relatives and loved ones from every one of us in this room.

There is a long way to go toward finding a cure or a vaccine for HIV and AIDS.

The Ryan White CARE Act provides the mechanisms and the resources to translate these and other research advances into practice.

I have directed the continued deployment of U.S. forces to Liberia pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct the foreign relations of the United States and as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive.

The theme of this year's World Trade Week, 'Winning with Exports,' is an invitation and a challenge to U.S. firms to reap the benefits of doing business abroad.

Today I have signed into law S. 641, the 'Ryan White CARE Act Amendments of 1996.'

Democracy and human rights are, I believe, universal human aspirations.

We cannot allow discrimination of any kind to blind us to what we must do.

The rapid approval of a new class of anti-HIV therapies offers new hope that this virus can be held in check for extended periods of time.

Let us strive to give our Nation's exporters every opportunity to sell products freely and fairly.