03/03/1999
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"Our relationship with Japan is the centerpiece of our policy toward the Pacific community."
"Let us wish for a new Pacific community, built on shared effort, shared benefit, and a shared destiny."
"It represents an elevation of this issue within our own government."
"The Clinton administration made a very calculated decision at the outset to give quite a bit of priority to the relationship with Russia."