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Thank you, Prime Ministers, for your kind words of welcome and your wonderful hospitality. We have had a very successful meeting in Vilamoura and we are grateful to you and your government for hosting us. It is appropriate that we meet here in Lisbon where the transatlantic connections have always been most vivid and concrete.

As a founding member of NATO and a dependable Ally, Portugal has played a major part in making the transatlantic bridge a solid one. This was the case in the past, and will remain so in the future.

With the strength of the transatlantic connection, we have made remarkable progress towards a system of cooperative security in Europe.

Thanks to the efforts of the Allies, we are now in a unique position to shape the new security environment for the better. We are doing so in Bosnia with SFOR, and previously with IFOR. I would like to praise here the Portuguese contribution, along with the forces of so many Allies and Partners, in bringing peace to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The EXPO'98 is yet another symbol of Portugal's success and of its outward-looking character. This exhibition is a most important event, and it is only fitting that NATO is represented here as well. After all, it is not least due to our Alliance that the Atlantic Ocean has become a bridge rather than a divide, and that transatlantic trade has evolved and flourished.

Last week, the Portuguese Parliament ratified the accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to our Alliance. When these three nations join us next year, they will add to the strength and unity of our Alliance. These countries, and those which are still to follow, will further add to the vitality of the transatlantic link - a link that remains vital for our future, a link that Portugal represents and contributes to in so many ways.Again, thank you for your generous hospitality.