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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, January 17, 1994 Volume 30ÐNumber 2 Pages 11±54 1 VerDate 25-MAR-98 09:54 Mar 28, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00001 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 E:\TEMP\P02JA4.000 INET03 Contents Addresses and Remarks January 11 in Brussels (No. 40)Ð30 Brussels, Belgium Interviews With the News MediaÐContinued American business communityÐ27 January 11 with European Union leaders in American diplomatic communityÐ18 Brussels (No. 41)Ð33 Future leaders of EuropeÐ11 January 12 with Visegrad leaders in Prague Hotel De VilleÐ17 (No. 42)Ð41 North Atlantic CouncilÐ21 January 12 with President Leonid Kravchuk Moscow, Russia, welcoming ceremonyÐ49 of Ukraine (No. 43)Ð45 Appointments and Nominations Letters and Messages See also Letters and Messages Commerce Department, Assistant SecretaryÐ Assistant Secretary of Defense nominee, letter 50 accepting withdrawalÐ27 Education Department, Regional and Deputy Meetings With Foreign Leaders Regional RepresentativesÐ50 International Joint Commission, United States Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc DehaeneÐ and Canada, membersÐ40 11 Â Labor Department, Office of Federal Czech Republic President Vaclav HavelÐ39 Contract Compliance Programs, DirectorÐ European Union leadersÐ33 50 North Atlantic CouncilÐ21 U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Russian President Boris YeltsinÐ49 Diplomacy, membersÐ40 Slovak Republic President Michal KovacÐ40 White House Office, Director of Presidential Ukraine President Leonid KravchukÐ45 PersonnelÐ40 Visegrad leadersÐ41 Communications to Congress Proclamations Peacekeeping operations in the former Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal HolidayÐ50 Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, letterÐ20 National Good Teen DayÐ52 Religious Freedom DayÐ51 Communications to Federal Agencies Statements by the President Assistance to the states of the former Soviet UnionÐ19 See Appointments and Nominations Interviews With the News Media Supplementary Materials Exchanges with reporters Acts approved by the PresidentÐ54 Brussels, BelgiumÐ11 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ54 Prague, Czech RepublicÐ39, 40 Digest of other White House News conferences announcementsÐ53 January 10 in Brussels (No. 39)Ð23 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ54 Editor's Note: The President was in Moscow, Russia, on January 14, the closing date of this issue. Releases and announcements issued by the Office of the Press Secretary but not received in time for inclusion in this issue will be printed next week. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF regulations prescribed by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, approved by the President (37 FR 23607; 1 CFR Part 10). PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS Distribution is made only by the Superintendent of Docu- ments, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. 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Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 25-MAR-98 09:54 Mar 28, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00001 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 E:\TEMP\P02JA4.000 INET03 Week Ending Friday, January 14, 1994 Exchange With Reporters Prior to and with many of Europe's future leaders in Discussions With Prime Minister this great hall of history. Jean-Luc Dehaene of Belgium in I first came to Brussels as a young man Brussels in a very different but a difficult time, when January 9, 1994 the future for us was uncertain. It is fitting that my first trip to Europe as President be Bosnia about building a better future for the young Q. Mr. President, do you think that Bosnia people of Europe and the United States should be at the top of the agenda for the today and that it begin here in Belgium. As NATO consideration? a great capital and as the headquarters of The President. Well, we'll discuss that NATO and the European Union, Brussels and a number of other things. We have a and Belgium have long been at the center lot of issues to discuss. But the Prime Min- of Europe's steady progress toward greater ister and I will discuss that and several other security and greater prosperity. For those of issues. As you know, he's just ended a tour you who know anything about me personally, of 6 months in the presidency of the EU, I also have a great personal debt of nearly and in my judgment, he and Belgium did 40 years standing to this country because it a superb job. They were very instrumental was a Belgian, Adolphe Sax, who invented in the successes we had last summer in the the saxophone. [Laughter] G±7 meeting, which laid the foundation for I have come here at this time because I the adoption of the GATT round. So we're believe that it is time for us together to revi- going to talk a little about that, too. talize our partnership and to define a new security at a time of historic change. It is President's Mother a new day for our transatlantic partnership: Q. Mr. President, are you finding it dif- The cold war is over; Germany is united; the ficult to engage in diplomacy after your per- Soviet Union is gone; and a constitutional de- sonal loss? mocracy governs Russia. The specter that The President. No, I'm glad to be here. haunted our citizens for decades, of tanks My family and my friends and my mother's rolling in through Fulda Gap or nuclear anni- friends, we had a wonderful day yesterday, hilation raining from the sky, that specter, and I'm doing what I should be doing. I'm thank God, has largely vanished. Your gen- glad to have the opportunity to be here and eration is the beneficiary of those miraculous go back to work. transformations. In the end, the Iron Curtain rusted from NOTE: The exchange began at 1:55 p.m. at the within and was brought crashing down by the Conrad Hotel. A tape was not available for ver- ification of the content of this exchange. determination of brave men and women to live free, by the Poles and the Czechs, by the Russians, the Ukrainians, the people of Remarks to Future Leaders of the Baltics, by all those who understood that Europe in Brussels neither economics nor consciences can be or- January 9, 1994 dered from above. Equally important, how- ever, their heroic efforts succeeded because Thank you very much, Mr. Prime Minister, our resolve never failed, because the weap- Mr. Mayor, distinguished leaders. I'm de- ons of deterrence never disappeared and the lighted to be here with the Prime Minister message of democracy never disappeared. 11 VerDate 25-MAR-98 10:12 Mar 28, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00001 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 E:\TEMP\P02JA4.010 INET03 12 Jan. 9 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1994 As the East enjoys a new birth of freedom, triumphs. And we should speak honestly one of freedom's great victories lives here in about what we feel about where we are and Europe's West: the peaceful cleaving to- where we should go. gether of nations which clashed for centuries. This is the truth as I see it. We served The transformation was wrought by visionary history well during the cold war, but now his- leaders such as Monnet, Schumann, Spaak, tory calls on us again to help consolidate free- and Marshall, who understood that modern dom's new gains into a larger and a more nations can enrich their futures more lasting peace. We must build a new security through cooperation than conquest. My ad- for Europe. The old security was based on ministration supports European union and the defense of our bloc against another bloc. Europe's development of stronger institu- The new security must be found in Europe's tions of common purpose and common ac- integration, an integration of security forces, tion. We recognize we will benefit more from of market economies, of national democ- a strong and equal partner than from a weak racies. The purpose of my trip to Europe is one. to help lead the movement to that integration The fall of the Soviet empire and Western and to assure you that America will be a Europe's integration are the two greatest ad- strong partner in it. vances for peace in the last half of the 20th For the peoples who broke communism's century. All of us are reaping their blessings. chains, we now see a race between rejuvena- In particular, with the cold war over and in tion and despair. And the outcome willÐ spite of the present global recession which bound to shape the security of every nation clouds your future, all our nations now have in the transatlantic alliance. Today that race the opportunity to take long, deferred steps is being played out from the Balkans to cen- toward economic and social renewal. My own tral Asia. In one lane are the heirs of the Nation has made a beginning in putting our enlightenment who seek to consolidate free- economic house in order, reducing our defi- dom's gains by building free economies, open cits, investing in our people, creating jobs, democracies, and tolerant civic cultures.
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