And, we are focusing efforts on reducing crime and corruption in Russia, where widespread lawlessness has emerged as a major threat to reform and foreign investment. In this vein, we have urged the Russians to build on their recently passed criminal code by adopting laws on corruption and money laundering, and we are committed to working with Russian law enforcement to ensure that new legislation is enforced. These efforts are critical to our goals of opening up new markets for U.S. companies and ensuring security and stability throughout the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe. The fate of Russian reform in general hinges upon what happens to Russian economic reform in particular. We have a vital interest in Russia's success here, for its sake, and for ours.
China too merits our close attention.
Alongside our efforts to work with china on such issues as non-proliferation, the environment, narcotics enforcement and human rights, our hope is that China will also see the advantages of following global economic trade norms. We support China's entry into the world trade organization on the basis of two rules and on commercially meaningful terms. Both will serve our traditional foreign and economic policy goals. Constructive U.S. relations with the people's republic are fundamentally important to the preservation of world peace and regional stability. International economic issues will also come together at next year's meeting of the group of seven industrialized countries here in Denver.