Clinton remarks at opening of plenary session, Egypt
US President Clinton, in opening remarks October 16 at the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt said "The future of the peoples involved here, the future of the peace process and the stability of the region are at stake; we cannot afford to fail here." Clinton said, "We're here because we would like to achieve three objectives. We want to end the violence and restore security cooperation. We hope to achieve agreement on an objective and fair, fact-finding process on what happened to bring us to this sad point and how we can avoid having it ever happen again. And we want to get the peace process going."
