 You better inform them. That's about as far as I can go with that. The sense of a musical play. I understand. So I'll see you tomorrow, right? I'm not that bushy, so I'll let you see me while the man is here tonight. We'll go after a few minutes. How are you, sir? I'm very pleased to meet you. I think you know these gentlemen. We'll just stand for a moment for a picture. Just a minute. They tried all on chat. Welcome to my secretary and brothers, where we have my words of welcome. And also, actually, a growing response to your warm hospitality as a vice president is visiting. The first hours I have spent in Washington I have received an unforgettable welcome. It's been an honor and a pleasure to welcome President Abu Juf to the White House today. And it is especially fitting that our meeting takes place on the 100th anniversary of our American consulate on the Cengales Island of Gourier. President Duf is one of Africa's most impressive leaders. He's a peacemaker and problem solver whose fine reputation preceded him to Washington. After meeting with him, working with him and talking to him, I can only say it is a reputation well deserved. In our conversations this morning and at lunch, we discussed many important international problems, particularly those of Africa, the Third World, and the Middle East. And many of the issues our views converge. On others, we've agreed to differ. We've always done so, however, in a spirit of mutual respect and in the context of a valued bilateral relationship. I have formed a high personal regard for President Duf's wisdom and integrity, and I value both his views and his counsel. Senegal and the United States are relative rarities in this troubled world. Democratic nations living under the rule of law and devoted to human rights committed to the search for peaceful solutions for international problems. I have assured President Duf of America's support for him and for Senegal. I've also expressed our admiration for his accomplishments at home and abroad. In the months ahead, I look forward to both building our personal friendship and strengthening the important ties that bind our two peoples. Knowing our relationship can only further the cause of world peace. We are very pleased to welcome President Duf at the White House today, and it is particularly appropriate that our meeting takes place for the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Consulate on the island of Goree. President Duf is one of the most impressive leaders of the African continent. A man of peace and solution, his beautiful reputation preceded him in Washington. After being maintained with him, I would say that his reputation is a well-deserved reputation. In our meetings this morning and this afternoon, we have maintained a lot of important international problems, especially those of Africa, the third world and the Middle East. On many of these problems, our opinions converge on others. We agree not to have the same opinion, but always in a mutual spirit and in the context of a very precious bilateral relationship. I have a lot of personal consideration for President Duf for his wisdom, his integrity, and I highly appreciate his opinions and his advice. The U.S. and the U.S. represent something relatively rare in our disturbed world. It is a democratic nation living under the guise of the law and devoted to the law of man, devoted to the search for peaceful solutions for international problems. I have assured President Duf that the U.S. supports him and Senegal. I have also expressed all our admiration for everything he has done in his country and outside of his country. In the coming months, I would like to make our personal friendship even more solid, to strengthen the important ties that our people have made, knowing very well that this relationship can only bring out a stronger peace. I would like to thank President Ronald Reagan, the government and the American people for their warm welcome, who have well wanted to reserve me as well as the delegation that accompanies me on the occasion of my first official visit to the United States of America. The fact that this visit coincides, as President Ronald Reagan has just recalled, with the centenary of the establishment of the first American consulate in Gore, the testimony of the old age of friendship and cooperation that unites Senegal and the United States of America, which are two democratic nations attached to the respect of the human rights and fundamental freedom. The fruitful support that we have received this morning and this afternoon has been the occasion of a deep exchange on consolidation and reinforcement of our bilateral cooperation, which I would like to rejoice here in terms of its quality and its effectiveness, as well as on the great international problems that arise in the world today, especially in Africa, in the Middle East and in the rest of the third world. On all these problems, we are convinced, in the spirit of trust relations that have been instilled between our two countries, to pursue and intensify our concertation to find the most effective solutions in the interest of peace and international security. We count on this end, on the wisdom of President Ronald Reagan, who is a leader that we admire for his frankness and his pragmatism, and who has already proved by his actions both inside and outside the United States that he was a great man of state, as a measure of the American people, and I would like to seize this opportunity to renew the assurance that we, people of the third world, follow with interest and understanding the unwavering efforts that he continues to undertake for the triumph of the ideas of peace, democracy and justice in the world. I should like, first of all, to thank President Ronald Reagan, to thank the American government and the American people for the particularly warm welcome that they have extended to me and to my delegation on this, my first official visit to the United States. The fact that my visit coincides, as President Reagan so appropriately recalled, with the centennial of the first American consulate in Gore, bears witness to the long-standing relations of friendship and cooperation between Senegal and the United States, two democratic nations attached to respecting human rights and basic freedoms. The fruitful meetings we had this morning and during the lunch were the occasion for thoroughgoing exchanges of views on strengthening and furthering our bilateral cooperation. I should like to rejoice here reflecting upon both its quality and its effectiveness. We also discussed major international issues confronting the world of today in Africa, the Middle East and the Third World. We are agreed in the spirit of the relationship based on confidence that has been established between our two countries to pursue and intensify our consultation in order to find the most effective solutions in the interest of peace and international security. To that end, we rely upon the wisdom of President Reagan, a leader whom we admire for his candor and his pragmatism. He has already proved by his actions inside the United States as well as outside of the United States that he is a major statesman fully consistent with the full measure of the American people and I should like to avail myself of this opportunity to renew the assurance that we, the people of the Third World, are following with great interest and comprehension the untiring efforts that he is constantly undertaking in order to secure the triumph of the ideals of peace, democracy and justice in the world.