The passage of the KORUS FTA has opened up a new chapter in our partnership, in our alliance.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Lee Press Availability
And the KORUS FTA will bring benefits beyond Korea and the United States.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Lee Press Availability
Now the KORUS FTA signals the beginning of an economic alliance.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Lee Press Availability
Moreover, the strategic implications of KORUS are inescapable as the United States needs to shore up a military ally at a critical moment in North Asia.
Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat, is not entirely on board the KORUS train because the South Koreans made no concessions on beef in the supplemental agreement.
It would be difficult for the administration, as a practical matter, to go back to the South Koreans to renegotiate KORUS or even to reach new side understandings.
And accordingly, in order to ensure the faithful implementation of the KORUS FTA, we will establish a ministerial-level joint committee, as previously agreed, and check upon the progress.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Lee Hold a News Conference
Ford was the principal stumbling block to KORUS ratification.
The President should be able to get KORUS through a Congress that his party controls, especially because the deal is still covered by the provisions of the Bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority Act of 2002 the so-called fast-track rules.
And as we were having dinner, it was President Obama who was looking at his Blackberry and told me -- and gave -- and broke the news that finally the KORUS FTA was ratified by the U.S. Congress while we were having dinner.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will also work together so that the KORUS FTA that came into effect last March 15th will fulfill its goal, that is creating jobs for our workers, expand trade and investments, and overall improve the lives of our peoples.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Lee Hold a News Conference
And the thing that I want to prove the most, ladies and gentlemen, with the KORUS FTA is that many of those critics who were saying that the KORUS FTA was somehow going to make people lose their jobs -- but really the KORUS FTA is going to create a lot of good, decent jobs for the people of America.
应用推荐