Bill Clinton: “in Hyde Park, New York October 23, 1995 President Clinton. We don't have prepared statements, but we will each make a…”

“in Hyde Park, New York October 23, 1995 President Clinton. We don't have prepared statements, but we will each make a very brief statement, and then we'll take a couple of questions. This was our eighth visit as heads of state. It was a good and productive one which emphasized the stability and the strength of the partnership between the United States and Russia. We spent the vast majority of our time discussing Bosnia, and we reached complete agreement about how we would work together for peace there. We reached agreement on the importance of the involvement of Russia and the other Contact Group partners in the peace process. On the question of what our roles would be in the implementation of a peace agreement, we made some progress, and we agreed that our representatives, Secretary Perry and Minister Grachev, would continue to work on this in the coming days, literally in just a matter of days. We discussed a number of other issues. I think I should mention three very briefly. First, we agreed that we would both push hard for the ratification of START II. Second, we agreed that we would continue our close cooperation on nuclear security, and we have a statement that we have already agreed on prepared by our experts which will be released today. And finally, we agreed--and this is very, very important--that we would work together to succeed in getting a zero-yield comprehensive test ban treaty next year.…”