Now, what we also recognized very early on was that it was in our national security interest to have a stable, sovereign Afghanistan that was a responsible international actor, that was in partnership with us, and that that required Afghanistan to have its own security capacity and to be on a path that was more likely to achieve prosperity and peace for its own people.

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With the failure of the secular parties and even of Hamas to achieve peace, victory or a modicum of prosperity, youths turned to ideologues who had broken away from Palestinian nationalism to invoke instead the power of pan-Islamist fervour.

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More important are Mr Cardoso's economic reforms, which aim to achieve sustained, inflation-free growth, and therefore greater prosperity for the predominantly dark-skinned poor.

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And finally, I stressed my strong support for ASEAN's ambitious goal of creating a community by 2015, including its bold effort to achieve economic integration, which will contribute to a sustained and lasting prosperity within this region and throughout the world.

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The United States of America and the Russian Federation will only be able to achieve positive new results by acting together for the purpose of strengthening the democracy, security, and prosperity of the American and Russian peoples, and by solving other complex challenges confronting our countries and the international community.

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