SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, let me welcome all of you to this Transatlantic Dinner. It is a real pleasure to see so many friends and colleagues both from the EU and NATO. We have the opportunity several times a year to come together to talk about the important matters that we are all concerned with, and tonight, I hope we can cover a number of issues that are of significance to each of our countries and, of course, to the EU and to NATO.
But I mostly just want to thank you for taking time out of what is an overwhelmingly busy schedule to share this time. And we’ll be efficient, because there are some, like David and Lawrence, who have other dinners, and I’m sure there are many of you who have consecutive obligations. So I think with that, we’ll ask the press to go have dinner, and we’ll be able to both start dinner and start our conversation. Thank you all very much.
