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"Mr President, transatlantic relations are essential if the United States and the European Union are to deal with their shared challenges successfully.
Both of us are firmly committed to achieving a secure international order. To this end, combating terrorism effectively must be our priority. In the face of totalitarianism and lack of freedom, there is no option but to have a strong and solid alliance with our natural partners, the United States: that is the only alliance that has produced, and will continue to produce, results.
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the United States’ Secretary of State’s announcement on Washington joining the multilateral negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme. If Teheran renounces uranium enrichment activities, Iran must completely and verifiably suspend all of its uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities.
We need full cooperation, leaving aside the hypocritical demagoguery of facile anti-Americanism. The need to intensify relations with the United States and to establish an Association Agreement, as requested in the Brok report, is of crucial importance.
We must enhance our relations, while maintaining a critical spirit, and explore new opportunities for greater joint and coordinated action at international level and greater integration of our markets, which will benefit our citizens.
The European Union will be heading for failure if it sets itself up in opposition to the United States and does not look at them as its natural allies. This is necessary as a result of the values we share – democracy, respect for human rights and individual freedom and the promotion of peace and collective security.
Furthermore, we hope that the next United States-European Union summit, to be held in June in Vienna, will provide a clear impetus for intensifying our relations in the economic field as well.
The creation of an Atlantic area of prosperity is essential in order to ensure that our citizens continue to enjoy the economic well-being that Europe and the United States provide them with."@en1
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