Full text of Reiss speech…

THE full text of US Envoy Mitchell Reiss’s speech to the National Committee on American Foreign Policy in New York on Thursday is copied below. Secretary of State Paul Murphy’s speech to the Labour Conference is proving a little harder to track down, as it is a Labour Party document, not an NIO one.

Ambassador Mitchell B. Reiss
The National Committee on U.S. Foreign Policy
New York City
September 30, 2004

Introduction

It is a pleasure to be with you in New York today and I am honored to be speaking before the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. I

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