Bill Clinton: “I think it's quite important. I think it's a statement that the United States puts great importance on our relationships…”

“I think it's quite important. I think it's a statement that the United States puts great importance on our relationships with Europe, with NATO, and with Germany, especially, and that we have a common security future with NATO. One of the great successes, I think, of the last year has been the Partnership For Peace, the establishment of cooperative relationships between NATO and now 21 other countries, 19 from the former Communist bloc and Sweden and Finland. So this is a very exciting time, I think, and the United States, as long as Europe wants to be our partner, should maintain that partnership and should stay in Europe. Germany-U.S. Relations Mr. Walther. Let me return to Germany. Is Germany still the most important ally of the United States?”