Something happened here that rarely happened in other meetings: the call to speak out loud was taken up by everyone, ... At times, we all talked out loud, perhaps too loud, but it made the meeting that much more interesting. |
The Chilean people have a profound feeling of solidarity towards the American people. |
There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers, |
They support terrorists, agents behind murders and insecurity directly or indirectly. |
This initiative is part of our plans to put Chile at the vanguard of technological development. According to our projections, Chile will need more than 200,000 Internet technicians by 2002. Cisco Systems will no doubt allow us to speed up that process, |
This is a day of joy and national unity, |
This is a terribly upsetting incident. I would like to send my condolences, regrets and my feelings of support to the victims' families. |
This is not the Chile we want to build, |
Today, a leader with extraordinary legitimacy takes office and we hope to have the best of relations. We have excluded nothing from our talks. |
Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege. |
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty, |
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all. |
We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children. |
We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders. |
What we have today is a different kind of enemy - it's not a country, it's not a particular society, it's not a religion. It has an unknown face. |