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Part VII: Appendices - 20. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Statement at the Ceremony of NATO's Fiftieth Anniversary, April 23, 1999
Appendix 20 PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAn١S statement AT THE CEREMONY OF NATO’S FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY, April 23, 1999 The fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of NATO was celehrated in Washington D.C. on April 25-25, اووو. On April 25, at 12:40 p.m., the main celebration was held in the Mellon Anditorinm, Following the opening address of Javier Solana, Secretary- General of NATO, President Bill Clinton and the heads of states or governments of the other eighteen states addressed the session and signed the declaration on behalf of their respective states. The docament below contains the address of Viktor Orbdn, Prime Minister of Hungary* Secretary General, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a real joy at NATO’s Fiftieth Anniversary that we feel today, but 1 suppose that the happiest of all are US, we the new members. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice. All of US have a different sense of the passage of time, which varies depending on what sihration, pleasant or unpleasant, we find ourselves in. It is the same with how long or short a day, a week or even a century seems to last. To all the nations in the world, all the cenhiries appear to be of different length. In terms of the past one hundred years, the twentieth century, all nations and individuals have a different perception of how long it has been. It all depends on the kind of events that determined our lives, the wars and turmoil we have survived, the joy we have had, the suffering and pain we have endured.