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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Monday, March 25, 1996 Volume 32ÐNumber 12 Pages 505±547 1 VerDate 28-OCT-97 12:52 Jan 08, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P12MR4.000 p12mr4 Contents Addresses and Remarks Executive OrdersÐContinued Budget, fiscal year 1997Ð529 Continuing the President's Committee on Independent Insurance Agents of America Mental Retardation and Broadening Its legislative conferenceÐ535 Membership and ResponsibilitiesÐ540 Louisiana President's Council on Counter-NarcoticsÐ Community in AlexandriaÐ528 511 Community at Fort PolkÐ526 Nashville Wharf dedication in New Joint Statements OrleansÐ521 South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, Museum of Television and Radio, Los statement by France, United Kingdom, and Angeles, CA, branch openingÐ520 the United StatesÐ544 National Center for Tobacco-Free KidsÐ531 Radio addressÐ512 Interviews With the News Media Saint Patrick's Day Exchanges with reporters ReceptionÐ509 Old Executive Office Building, Room 450Ð Shamrock presentation ceremonyÐ505 529 United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Oval OfficeÐ537 ConferenceÐ514 Roosevelt RoomÐ509, 535 Bill Signings Meetings With Foreign Leaders Continuing resolutions Haiti, President PrevalÐ537 10th, statementÐ512 Ireland, Prime Minister BrutonÐ505, 509 11th, statementÐ544 Tax benefit legislation for Operation Joint Proclamations Endeavor military personnel, statementÐ Greek Independence Day: A National Day of 534 Celebration of Greek and American DemocracyÐ543 Communications to Congress Women's History MonthÐ530 Haiti, letter reportingÐ542 Product liability, letter on proposed Statements by the President legislationÐ514 See also Bill Signings Science, technology and American diplomacy, Farm billÐ544 letter transmitting reportÐ534 General Motors strike, tentative agreementÐ 538 Communications to Federal Agencies Funds for international financial institutions Supplementary Materials and organizations, memorandumÐ531 Acts approved by the PresidentÐ547 Checklist of White House press releasesÐ547 Executive Orders Digest of other White House Administrative Allegations Against Inspectors announcementsÐ545 GeneralÐ538 Nominations submitted to the SenateÐ546 WEEKLY COMPILATION OF regulations prescribed by the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register, approved by the President (37 FR 23607; 1 CFR Part 10). 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The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is pub- There are no restrictions on the republication of material lished pursuant to the authority contained in the Federal Reg- appearing in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Docu- ister Act (49 Stat. 500, as amended; 44 U.S.C. Ch. 15), under ments. 2 VerDate 28-OCT-97 12:52 Jan 08, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 1249 Sfmt 1249 W:\DISC\P12MR4.000 p12mr4 Week Ending Friday, March 22, 1996 Remarks at a Ceremony Celebrating has now been set. The talks will start on the Saint Patrick's Day With Prime 10th of June. Minister John Bruton of Ireland and Meanwhile, difficult discussions are taking an Exchange With Reporters place mapping out the route towards the March 15, 1996 talks, the various things that need to be done so that talks will start in the best possible President Clinton. Mr. Prime Minister, atmosphere on the 10th of June. I want to welcome back to the White House. stress that the only qualification required of Prime Minister Bruton. Thank you. And any party for participation in those talks is now may I present this bowl of shamrock. that they should not support a campaign of President Clinton. Thank you. It's very violence. Thus the only qualification required beautiful. We're delighted to have you here, for something that we want very much, which and we'd be glad for you to make whatever is full Sinn Fein participation in these talks, remarks you'd like. is the reinstatement of the cease-fire. And Prime Minister Bruton. Mr. President, I ask the IRA to reinstate the cease-fire so first of all, this gift of a bowl of shamrock that Sinn Fein will be able to take their symbolizes an Irish greeting. And it's a greet- unique and deserved part in the talks that ing, first and foremost, which says thank you, will be starting on the 10th of June. thank you to the United States for making I want to say also, from the point of view a home for so many generations of Irish peo- of the Irish Government, that it is extremely ple who have come here to participate in the important that these talks, when they start greatest democracy in the world. on the 10th of June, do not become It's also a way at this particular time of logjammed on one item. Of course, the issue saying thank you to you personally for your of the decommissioning of arms and the very contribution to giving us peace in Ireland. important and difficult questions that were The 17 months of the cease-fire during which so lucidly dealt with by Senator George so many lives were saved, those 17 months Mitchell in his report, of course those are would never have come were it not for the critical issues which must be dealt with in courage that you showed and the interest that the talks from the very outset and dealt with you took in bringing peace to Ireland. Your in a serious way. But I want to say that, from interest gave confidence to peacemakers in the point of view of the Irish Government, Ireland, and that interest is something that and we will be participating fully in these I believe will be crucial in bringing peace talks, we're not willing to allow any one item, back to Ireland now that it has been, unfortu- be it decommissioning or anything else, to nately, interrupted. prevent progress on other items. We want I believe that the important thing we need to see a total and comprehensive engagement to reestablish the cease-fire has already been on all of the issues across all of the problems achieved. That is the setting of a fixed date by all of the parties. for all-party talks, the 10th of June of this And I want to stress that the goal of these year. As we know, those who are concerned talks is truly ambitious. It is a comprehensive about progress in Northern Ireland, those agreement, not an internal settlement within who are concerned from a Republican per- Northern Ireland, a comprehensive settle- spective, a Nationalist perspective, that ade- ment dealing with the relations between Brit- quate progress was not being made, were de- ain and Ireland, dealing with relations be- manding consistently the setting of a fixed tween Northern Ireland and the rest of Ire- and unconditional date for talks. That date land, and of course, instituting justice within 505 VerDate 28-OCT-97 13:11 Jan 08, 1998 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 1244 Sfmt 1244 W:\DISC\P12MR4.018 p12mr4 506 Mar. 15 / Administration of William J. Clinton, 1996 Northern Ireland and fairness within North- ter]Ðand I will try to put them only to public ern Ireland itself. use. [Laughter] What we're aiming at in that three-strand- When the Prime Minister hosted me in ed approach is a system of government for Ireland last year at Dublin Castle in a room the people of Northern Ireland to which both called St. Patrick's Hall, it struck me that he communities can give equal allegiance. All would be back here for St. Patrick's Day. And throughout the world where problems of this I'm glad to have him back in this house which nature exist, where there are two commu- was itself designed by an Irishman more than nities mixed together with differing national 200 years ago, especially since one in four allegiances, the tendency has been in the past of all American Presidents trace their roots for one community to be predominant and back to Ireland. the other to be subordinate. What we're look- I want to thank the Prime Minister for ing for in Ireland is something different. It being here especially this year because of the is a system of government where both com- extraordinary physical efforts he has made in munities will feel equal, where both will have the last few days. He first accepted my invita- the same loyalty to the institutions each share tion, along with President Mubarak of Egypt, and each live under. That's something which to join us at Sharm al-Sheikh in Egypt. So I believe that deserves to happen; it deserves he has been to Egypt just in the last couple to happen in this generation. of days before coming here. And I know he And I recollect, when I first came to this was at an event last night and made a speech. house, and you, Mr. PresidentÐI've given So we certainly can attest to his physical you some shamrock todayÐyou made me a stamina, as well as his leadership ability, and presentation of a book which was entitled to the evidence that this gives once again to ``How the Irish Saved Civilization.'' It was Ireland's willingness to stand for peace, not about the role of Irish monks in preserving only within Ireland and in Northern Ireland learning during the Dark Ages after the fall but throughout the world.