On behalf of the American people, it is my honor to welcome you to the United States as our neighbors, our partners, and our friends.

My view is that Mexico is our partner and that we have to work together.

I salute our pilots and crews and their NATO colleagues.

On September 26, 1993, I declared a national emergency with respect to Angola, invoking the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

The most important thing is that the work continue now to make a comprehensive peace.

I am delighted to be joined here by the Foreign Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Ambassador to Greece to formally congratulate these two countries on the agreement they signed yesterday in New York.

Both Prime Minister Papandreou and President Gligorov deserve congratulations for demonstrating the courage and determination needed to reach an agreement that was fair to both sides.

I hope both governments will now proceed to establish friendly and enduring bilateral relations while taking steps to resolve their remaining differences, including over the name issue.

I am pleased to announce that I have received his positive response and can confirm that diplomatic relations now exist between our two countries.

The U.N. Security Council resolution is clear, and the conditions laid out by our committee on the ground are clear.

The parties have pledged to adhere to international human rights standards.

Much work remains to be done in translating these principles into a final peace agreement.

The deferral affects the International Security Assistance program.

We have to face the future together, because we're going to live in a global society.

I'm proud of the fact that there are no Russian missiles pointed at this country for the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age.

I welcome the decision by Prime Minister Papandreou and President Gligorov to send their Foreign Ministers to New York next week to complete an agreement on steps to establish friendly relations between their two countries.

I also want to thank the Government of France and the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) for their extraordinary efforts to care for the casualties.

The Nonproliferation Treaty should be made permanent.