Presidents & Prime Ministers articles from March 2001

Presidents & Prime Ministers archives from March 2001

The University in Society.(Ireland)
March 1, 2001... More than four hundred years ago, Francis Bacon wrote that "even knowledge itself is power." To be the owner of power is a formidable thing. Those who have power have access to control, authority, influence and strength, Hardly a day goes by...

Political Pluralism & Advanced Statehood.(Slovakia)
March 1, 2001... Is a Market Economy (Fee Enterprise) a priority for your administration? Free trade and a favorable entrepreneurial environment are not only my personal priorities, but also those of our whole government, proven by several measures...

Belarus' Commitment to Peace & Prosperity.
March 1, 2001... What measures should the Palestinians and the Israelis undertake to bring about peace in the Middle East? The present situation in the Middle East causes serious concern. The failure to settle major contentious issues between the...

Globalization has Shrunk the World.(St. Lucia)
March 1, 2001... Is a Market Economy (Free Enterprise) a priority for your administration? A strong, efficient and dynamic market economy is a priority for the government. St. Lucia's stable democracy is underpinned by a free enterprise system in which the...

Establishing Just Peace & Stability.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... President Hosni Mubarak renewed his call for setting up an Arab Common Market to tackle the problem of employment before its explosion in the region. According to Mubarak, inter-Arab trade accounts for 8% of the total Arab foreign trade...

The Israeli Position.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... 1. The government of Israel is determined in its aspiration to achieve peace with its Palestinias neighbors. 2. The government of Israel has placed at the top of its priorities the primary goal of restoring security and calm, in order to...

Supporting Peace, Justice & Equality.(13th Arab Summit, 2001)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The convening of this conference, the first Arab Summit within the framework of regular convention of the Summit Council of the League of Arab States, promises much tot Arab solidarity and joint Arab efforts and makes us optimistic al)out a...

Peace & Freedom Everywhere.(United States-Israel relations)
March 1, 2001... We would be foolish to pretend that change does not carry with it an inevitable uncertainty. Change allows tot many possibilities, and we cannot ensure that these are always positive. That reality is especially relevant today: I do not need to...

Dialogue to Solve Conflict.(Albania and Russia on conflict in Macedonia)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Albania and the Russian Federation will continue their efforts to encourage the parties in Macedonia to turn to dialogue and negotiations, said the Albanian Foreign Minister, Paskal Milo, after the meeting he had with the Foreign Minister of...

Freedom, Democracy & Human Rights.(United States, Germany)
March 1, 2001... The United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany are linked by a deep friendship. Our meeting opens a new chapter in our close relationship. At the beginning of the 21st century, we reaffirm our common commitment to the lasting...

Federal Spending & Tax Relief.(United States)
March 1, 2001... IRS The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) asks our families a lot of questions including how much did you earn? did you move last year and how big is your mortgage payment? You know the IRS knows more about us than our neighbors do. In a lot...

Meeting the U.S. Energy Challenge.
March 1, 2001... America faces a major energy supply crisis over the next two decades. The failure to meet this challenge will threaten our nation's economic prosperity, compromise our national security and literally alter the way we live our lives. ...

Reshaping America's Role in the World.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The committee meets to hear testimony regarding America's national security strategy for the next decade and beyond. Because budgets must flow from and support strategy, this hearing is intended to begin laying the groundwork for the...

Historical Impressions, 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower United States.("Atoms for Peace" proposal)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... From a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on December 8, 1953, which came to be known as the "Atoms for Peace" proposal. Its is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be p,t into the hands of...

Strengthening Domestic Demand.
March 1, 2001... We have successfully steered the economy out of the crisis with strong growth in GDP of 5.8% in 1999 and 8.5% last year. However, there is growing evidence that the United States economy may experience a greater slowdown than earlier...

Historical Impressions, 1912 President Woodrow Wilson United States.(quotation from a campaign speech)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... From a presidential campaign, address at Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 31, 1912. There is no cause half so sacred as the cause ora people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

The Right Training for the Youth.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... There is a thought that comes to me each time a young man and woman walks up the stage to receive his or her diploma during baccalaureate exercises. Why not, I often muse, give the deserving youth an on-the-job training in Malacanang, the seat...

Creative Partnership.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori of Japan and President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation held talks in Irkutsk, Russia. Both parties expressed their satisfaction that bilateral relations are demonstrating further progress in all areas...

Russia's Accession to the WTO.
March 1, 2001... It is good to be back in Russia again, and as always, I am spellbound by the grandeur of it, and deeply impressed by the signs of change and the deep sense of history and destiny of leaders driven by duty. From the World Trade...

Saving Succeeding Generations from the Scourge of War.
March 1, 2001... I need hardly spend time making the case for prevention. We all know that preventing war, when you can do it, is far less costly than dealing with its aftermath. That is true in material terms, but what is far more important is that we can save...

Educating Youngsters Across the World.
March 1, 2001... President Bush's favorite themes, that of education, and particularly to examine ways in which you can accomplish something that he and so many of us talk about all the time, and that is to make sure that every child, every child in America, is...