We look forward to many fruitful years of close cooperation with you and your Government.

I am hopeful that the good start achieved by these meetings will develop into sustained negotiations leading to a comprehensive solution.

The continued importance of improving NATO's defense posture was acknowledged.

I will be the President in the fullest sense of the word until Inauguration Day.

We agreed on the necessity of continuing these close consultations.

It’s good at a time like this to reemphasize the common basis on which we deal with international problems.

Serious, sustained talks provide the best opportunity for reaching a just and lasting settlement of the issues that face Cyprus.

We regret that there is no evidence of Soviet readiness to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan.

The cause of human rights will be all the stronger if it remains at the service of humanity, rather than at the service of ideological or partisan ends.

The treaty of Tlatelolco, when completed, will forever ban nuclear weapons from Latin America.

I'm more convinced than ever that the future we desire lies in recognizing yearnings that are common to individuals and to nations alike.

I want to take a few minutes to assess what we have done together and to describe my own hopes for the future.