Democratic capitalism encourages trust and cooperation.

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The President and the Prime Minister will also discuss common efforts on counterterrorism, counterpiracy, green growth, economic development, Arctic cooperation and support for the democratic transitions in North Africa and the Middle East.

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Those of us who were here in 1996 remember a great deal of cooperation between a Republican Congress and a Democratic President.

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And that deep sense of interconnection, our shared values, our shared interests, infused the work that we have done today -- from supporting a resolution to the eurozone crisis to moving ahead with the transition in Afghanistan, from deepening security cooperation here in the Americas to supporting reform and democratic transitions in the Middle East and North Africa.

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He spoke too about the type of Christian Lady Thatcher had been - her belief that to make the market, or democratic institutions, work properly, personal qualities such as truthfulness, cooperation with others and mutual sympathy were necessary.

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He described Union cooperation in Africa, including the deployment of two military operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and one in Chad, as well as a naval operation off the coast of Somalia and assistance for the African Union operation and the Transitional Federal Government in the country.

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