To you and to the people of Ireland, America is grateful forour shared past, hopeful forourcommon future, and I assure you we will be a faithful partner in the work of progress and prosperity, and a just a lasting peace.
And we, yesterday, had at the State Department with Secretary Clinton an extremely fruitful meeting of the groups of Afghan ministries and their counterparts in the U.S. government, outlining the progress we have made in the past several years and our aspirations for the future and ourcommon objectives towards the future as we travel along.