We are determined that the process of NATO enlargement serve the larger cause of peace, security, prosperity, democratization and integration on the Continent of Europe. It is also a matter of asserting a positive proposition - that NATO must respect and enhance the security of the region as a whole and the security of all European states that deserve and aspire to integration. That emphatically includes Ukraine. We've laid the basis for a steadily developing relationship of cooperation and consultation. There is nothing to limit how that enhanced relationship might develop over time.
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Both those principles apply to Ukraine. No subject has occupied more attention than European security in the dealings that Secretary Christopher and I have had with our friend Foreign Minister Hennadiy Udovenko, or in the talks that Tony Lake and I recently had with Volodymyr Horbulyn, the very able Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. By the way, Foreign Minister Udovenko will be here again in just over a week for meetings with Secretary Christopher, Secretary Perry and National Security Advisor Tony Lake. I do not want to impose on your kind attention much longer. Nor do I want to delay the next stage of the embassy's hospitality.