 the President of the United States, and Mrs. Reagan. It is a distinct pleasure and honor to welcome your majesties to Washington. Looking forward to meeting King Hussein along the rhythm of age is the perspective it gives to looking back. Watch King Hussein for a distance for many years. Watched as he ascended the throne and accepted great responsibility while still in his teens. He's proved himself time and again a brilliant man. It's based on shared interests but also on common values and mutual respect. He has led Jordan. America has maintained a flavoring dedication to the search for Middle East peace. Over these many years, King Hussein has been our friend. Since loyalty has not lightly regarded by the people of the United States. Let it be understood that America takes peace with honor and security for all the states and people who will be a similar goal to your own. At this moment, your Majesty, there's much to discuss about how to reach our neutral. The tragic events make it even more imperative that we work together if solutions are to be found. Today, let us achieve an understanding about ourselves and then reaffirm the world our own differences between us that we cannot overcome. Less in the friendship between the United States. No one should think the preservation of Jordan security, integrity, and its unique and enduring character remains a prior to the well-being of your people. Your creative statesmanship and your good sense have enriched Jordan. Under your leadership, King Hussein, the Jordanian economy shielded freedom literally and figuratively to all the citizens of Jordan. In Jordan today, the private sector is thriving in the standard of living as an increasing model for developing nations. Literacy rate rose from 32 to 10. Prescaded Jordanians now fill skilled jobs all over the Middle East. That employment has only disappeared and Jordan boasts an enriched annual economic growth rate of 900%. For success and for the sake that people have known previous adversity can rise above their conflicts to build a new life. Similarly, tremendous opportunities for economic government in your region while political problems work themselves Given freedom to do so, people who live in such proxies that they will interact to best themselves even though divided by politics. Such peaceful interactions should be applauded. For the more, any mutually beneficial economic cooperation between next to water and transportation, for example. Your area is a potential benefit to you and your neighbors if a far-sighted approach. As majesty there are, however, other forces would seek to brighten and export the divisions among the peoples of the Middle East. Snip down from both reflect and increase the power and influence. On the internal problems of the region we must never lose sight in aggravating those problems. In easy lives they had, you proclaimed, well in your life you've demonstrated that you are a pilot, as a soldier, but that you were debate and respect for the supreme being who is the ruler of a soul. There are such values. Oh, your plan for them. King Abdullah, in his memoirs wrote, in the duty of all Arab, they possess a place in the nations of the world. And that they stand today at the site of the between-figuring inspiring communism. Majesty, you're ready to have them to the wisdom of your grandfather by maintaining initial dangers while still providing leadership, as well as those issues which most are sincerely attempting. It was plagued. Plagued at every lasting peace is in our interest, in the interest of all people of goodwill. Respecting our differences, and knowing it was with you that you share our heartfelt desire for peace and stability, earned this trust and decided to stay the night with it a better one indeed. And while walking in the darkness, you heard the voice of a man from inside a tent. I want you to know that we, too, are proud of you as a friend. To be once again, you are in response to a kind of mutation. The leader of this year, indeed, 25th anniversary of a unique relationship. It is a relationship on which your nations and nations were connected, who are the same ones which are so dear and bizarre to those ideals that proudly seek consolidation of a friendship through a century ago, and dynamic relations on mutual understanding. And while this eventful year is for the cause of the other people, which is my cause, and motivation that it is at the time of the people, not all of the people, must inevitably, the distortions to the understanding that you share with is based. Dedicated to the highest of ideals, I know also that you have the courage of your convictions at working together, and security at the least. And this quality is what the source of strength, which that goal requires, is most turbulent and critical of time. I see in Japan, they are not only Arab rights and the ultimate interests, but a threat to the very Arab identity and the interests of future Arab generations. I also see the latter states who will be in the interests of all who are still there. I shall be able to present our case convincingly of our soul, and thus if the way it was formulating of policies and once more lasting as the relations, it is indeed a duty that surround us at this moment in my return home. I shall be able to talk with my colleagues at the next Arab field, and I shall be missing into this favorable news in these coming days. For what is at stake with both our national interests and the future of so many, that on the basis of our long, close friendship with courage that we share, we can meet the challenge before us. Guard your strength in leading the greater and future.