 Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan. Ladies and gentlemen, the national anthems of the Argentine Republic and the United States. Let's conclude the honors. Read to Argentina. And your country is one of the oldest democracies of the hemisphere. The flame of liberty burned red hot in Argentina. And your country was the first on the continent to ban slavery. This was no mere coincidence, Mr. President. The Argentine people are the heirs of a great legacy. Similar to our own experience, Argentina was a frontier society. A land where people came from many parts of the world to better themselves and to live in freedom. An undeveloped land, yet one blessed by continue to share the challenge of maintaining the economic growth and development so vital to the well-being of our peoples. Keeping a national economy vital and robust requires hard ones today in order to make a better tomorrow. We appreciate here, Mr. President, the severe economic problems that you inherited. A few years ago, I, too, has unsaped our strength. Had we challenged our efforts in defining easy and short-term answers, had we looked to redistribution of existing wealth rather than creating more, we would still be trapped in a seemingly endless morass. Instead, by focusing efforts on economic inflation into stability and national doubt into optimism and growth, President Alfonsine, every country must make its own way and walk its own path. Yet friends can and should help one another. The United States will do what we can to assist you in your efforts to improve the economic conditions of your country, and to prosper. This prospect is made even more likely now that Argentina has returned between freedom and economic development. Democracy frees the spirit of man to achieve, to build, and to create. It's the only system consistent with the decent and humane values at the heart of our societies. Democracy means day of life, an ideal which seems to be a process, yet is an end in itself. It's not the easiest system, but it is the most just, and it brings a better and a freer layer realized. They are not decreed, they are created. They are made by education. They are not made in the Congress. They are made in the house, in the home. They don't live on paper. They live in the man. But today is an exciting time to be an American, and I mean all of us, from the North Slope of Alaska and Democratic movements. In Nicaragua, communists who were just one faction in the broad coalition that pledged to replace their former dictatorship with democracy quickly seized control of the organs of power are fighting the communists right now, as the Sandinistas had fighting Samoza before they seized power. The free people of this hemisphere must not stand, including the genuine democratization of Nicaragua. The Central American nations could live in peace and democracy. Mr. President, as leaders of two great nations dedicated to democracy and committed to freedom throughout our hemisphere, San Martin, a great free sacrifice, my existence for liberty. Today democracy draws the people of the United States and Argentina and all other Americans closer in a battle liberty we cherish so deeply. Mr. President, I wish to begin... You are granted to the president of all Argentines. It is really important that you have pointed out that this is precisely in circumstances where a true wave of advanced democratization on Latin America. This is what our founding fathers did on the other hand. The founding fathers wanted for us, both the founding fathers of the United States and those of Argentina. That's precisely what the men that gave us independence fought for. Starting with General Washington in the north, the General San Martin, the people of the United States are fighting for the new democracies. They give back the demands of the social democracy. The fear that is born of understanding that there are unsatisfactory expectations in our people. That the democracies have inherited The debt that in my country reaches the $40 billion, and that in Latin America reaches the $400 billion, that of course conspires against democratic systems. For us, the philosophy you just mentioned, the philosophy of the state of law, the respect of human rights, that is equal to both of us. That's why as a president in Latin America, we are ready to govern with the austerity that our times are demanding. We are making the necessary adjustments to supress the obstacles of our economy. It's different from those countries in which the GNP is perceived by only 50%. In our countries, it doesn't reach it in the 40%. To me, to listen to your welcome and remarks, because you've shown a deep understanding of our problems. I am personally convinced that the security of the hemisphere is intimately linked to the development of democracy in our continent. I am indeed persuaded that the United States understands that the development of democracy is, of course, entrenched in our country. Subjects and also those items that regard the continent as a whole. And of course, in our dialogues, the subject of Nicaragua and Central America will not be absent. Convinced that it's through dialogue that we will be able to reach peace. The basis of the principle, the long-standing dialogue between our peoples will be two men freely elected by the will of our peoples, so, Mr. President, it will be a dialogue of both our peoples. And because of them, we will try to reach the...