I believe that my meeting today with President Jiang established our determination to build on the positive aspects of our existing relations and to address far more candidly and personally than we have in the past the problems that remain…

We want very much to continue to buy from those Asian countries, and we want them to buy our products.

I called President Salinas, and I told him that the Vice President and Chief of Staff McLarty would be available to go to Mexico City when NAFTA is ratified by both nations.

We want to build a free trading relationship that will support the growth of Asia and support jobs in our nations.

This agreement is in the deep self-interest of the United States.

It is the placement of international economic policy at the front burner of American foreign policy.

To recognize that we're a Pacific power is not to forget that we're an Atlantic power.

I think there are really four larger implications of this APEC leaders' meeting as far as we're concerned.

The rejection of NAFTA would set back our relationship with Mexico, and Latin America beyond, for years to come.

No longer can nations afford to build invisible walls at their borders because there are no longer national borders to free trade.

I am pleased that the United States, Mexico, and Canada have reached agreement on the supplemental accords to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

I am equally confident that Jane Wales' experience in the foreign policy arena will be used well as our staff at OSTP continues to pursue joint science and technology ventures with other countries around the world.

I think the Syrians have shown commendable restraint so far.

On Monday, I leave for Tokyo for the G-7 summit.

The changes now going on in Japan over the long run are going to be good for the Japanese people and good for the American people.

This Convention is aimed at precluding such incidents from recurring.

Argentina has become an international leader on the great issues of the post-cold-war era.

I wanted him to come here and to be the first Latin American leader to come because of the remarkable, some would say astonishing, progress in Argentina in the last couple of years.