CSCE: the power of principle. (President Bush's remarks at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) (transcript)

CSCE: The Power of Principle

On behalf of the American people, it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you to the United States. It's especially fitting that this meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe [CSCE] - the first ever on American soil - comes at this time of momentous change. For just as Europe enters a new and promising era, so too, do America's relations with Europe.

We Americans are bound to Europe by a shared heritage and history and the common bonds of culture. Through the Atlantic alliance and the broader partnership that bind our two continents and peoples together, we have brought about the end of Europe's division and set our eyes on a new Europe, whole and free. Together, we can forge a new transatlantic partnership at the CSCE, a commonwealth of free nations that spans the oceans between us.

A World of Change …