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Article: The president's news conference with Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema of Italy.(Bill Clinton's speech)(Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- March 8, 1999
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March 5, 1999
The President. Good afternoon. I very much enjoyed my first meeting with Prime Minister D'Alema. I am proud of our alliance and our friendship with Italy.
I have to begin this press conference by stating again our great sorrow over what occurred at Cavalese. When I called former Prime Minister Prodi immediately after that terrible event, I made it clear that we would take strong measures to assure that something like that would not occur again. We have taken such measures to enhance safety; we will continue to do so.
The Prime Minister and I today agreed that our Secretary of Defense and their Minister of Defense will review these ...