April 23, 1999

NATO Summit 50th Anniversary Event

In a ceremony to induct Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic into NATO on its 50th anniversary, flags were paraded and heads of state… read more

In a ceremony to induct Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic into NATO on its 50th anniversary, flags were paraded and heads of state introduced before they spoke about the anniversary and signed the Declaration of Washington. In the midst of a NATO military campaign against Serbian forces in Yugoslavia, the leaders all proposed that their decision to act was driven by a moral imperative to stop ethnic cleansing. close

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Jose Maria Aznar President Spain
Tony Blair Prime Minister United Kingdom->Sedgefield

Kjell Magne Bondevik Prime Minister Norway
Jacques Chirac President France
Jean Chretien Prime Minister Canada->Liberal Party
Bill Clinton U.S. President United States
Massimo D'Alema Prime Minister Italy
Jean-Luc Dehaene Prime Minister Belgium
Suleyman Demirel Prime Minister Turkey
Antonio Guterres Prime Minister Portugal
Vaclav Havel President Czech Republic
Jean-Claude Juncker Prime Minister Luxembourg
Wim Kok Prime Minister Netherlands
Aleksander Kwasniewski President Poland
David Oddsson Prime Minister Iceland
Viktor Orban Prime Minister Hungary
Poul Rasmussen Prime Minister Denmark
Gerhard Schroeder Chancellor Germany->Social Democratic Party
Constantine Simitis Prime Minister Greece
Javier Solana Secretary-General NATO

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Program ID:: 122737-1
Category:: White House Event
Format:: Statement
Location:: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
First Aired:: Apr 23, 1999 | 12:52pm EDT | C-SPAN 1
Last Aired:: Apr 25, 1999 | 6:35am EDT | C-SPAN 1

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Apr 23, 1999 | 12:52pm EDT | C-SPAN 1
Apr 23, 1999 | 8:41pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
Apr 24, 1999 | 12:25am EDT | C-SPAN 2
Apr 24, 1999 | 4:38am EDT | C-SPAN 1
Apr 25, 1999 | 6:35am EDT | C-SPAN 1

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