 The next question was, you mean you don't understand the budget and the budget, We have one particular correspondent who wants to break the rules. That was the one who asked you the questions. How you do, I don't know if I can do it. This is customary in all countries. Yes. Well, again, welcome to all of you. I'm very pleased. I'm very productive. Congratulations. The risk of repeating some of the things I've already said here, I welcome you all of ours. We look forward to working closely and appreciating the gratification of the Department of Human Rights for the support for the INF and the, I could mention the F-18 cartoon. The President will be in the room where we understand the approach to NATO and its relationship to the European Community entry. We believe that full membership would be in your interest. We understand also the problems you have in achieving that. To a membership would facilitate a defense cooperation. I'll wait now because you, I know I have an agenda and things to choose. I'd also like to bring that up. He's an American and a half. No, no, no, no. I'm just an average size American. We're going to have a lot of trouble with anyone who knows much about Spain and that's what you're talking about. He said the most exciting period in Spain's history. Well, they were very happy. It was very thoughtful and exquisite. I'd like to say, Mr. President, in 1975, the year of the death of Franco, it's a voter percentage of 11%. I would like to take this opportunity to underscore our great pleasure at receiving President Gonzales and express once again our friendship and admiration and support for the government and the people of Spain. The President and I had an exceptionally productive and cordial meeting today. We reviewed international and bilateral matters in an open understanding and democratic spirit that one would expect between friends and allies. We affirmed the need for strong leadership to deal with the political and economic and social problems which underlies so much of the unrest in the world today. President Gonzales and I had exceptionally productive and cordial conversations today. We examined international and bilateral matters in an open, comprehensive and democratic spirit that one would expect between friends and allies. We affirmed the need for strong leadership to deal with the political, economic and social problems which underlies so much of the unrest in the world today. We agreed on the desirability of early, positive and balanced conclusion to the CSCE Review Conference presently underway in Madrid. I expressed our appreciation for President Gonzales' commitment to the President's recent initiative in this regard which we'll be discussing with our friends and allies. There are numerous areas of closer cooperation including the pursuit of our common energy security interests. We value Spain as an important partner. We welcome the President's high sense of responsibility in guiding his country at this critical moment in its history. We applaud Spain's aspirations to join Europe fully and to make its voice heard in Europe's leading institutions. We believe the West's most fundamental resource is the strength of democratic institutions. The consolidation of democracy in Spain is a ringing affirmation of the vitality of western institutions and the appeal of western values. I expressed our appreciation for President Gonzales' recent initiative in this regard which we'll be discussing with our friends and allies. There are numerous areas of closer cooperation including the pursuit of our common energy security interests. We appreciate Spain as an important partner. We welcome the President's high sense of responsibility in guiding his country at this critical moment in his history. We applaud Spain's aspirations to join Europe fully and to make his voice heard in Europe's leading institutions. We believe the West's most fundamental resource is the strength of democratic institutions. The consolidation of democracy in Spain is a ringing affirmation of the vitality of western institutions and the appeal of western values. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank President Reagan for the possibility of an open dialogue with a country like the United States that we consider as friends with Spain and that we consider as friends with the United States. It's an open conversation with the USA to which we consider a friendly country, a good friend of Spain. As you know, Spain is an old European nation that, among other things, has a historic role in discovering this great American solar. As you know, Spain is a very old European country who, among other things, discovered this land that nowadays occupies this great country of yours. But it's also a young country, not only because the country is young, but because we just recover the dignity of being a democratic country. A simple definition of Spain would characterize what her foreign policy should be. Spain is a European and a Western country, the most Western of the European countries. It's more logical that it aspires to integrate itself in European institutions and that it aspires to share the common destiny in all the lands of the Western world. Nothing more logical than its wish and its desire to participate and integrate in the European and the Western world and cooperate with the Western world in a common destiny. But we are also a southern country in Europe. We are very close to Africa and our coast is in the Mediterranean basin. This defines another important aspect of our foreign policy, the north of Africa and the important waters of the Mediterranean basin. And the impossibility of expressing myself in English means that there is another dimension of Spanish foreign policy, which is that we share the language of about 300 million beings living in the south of the American continent. This gives the third dimension of the foreign policy of Spain, without meaning that any one of them means a priority against the others. Let me tell you that I am 41 years old and during 33 of these years I was dreaming of a free and democratic Spain. This is of course what we want and we hope for our people, but this is also what we want and we hope for other peoples wherever we can project this foreign policy. We therefore wish and want for other countries who can communicate with us in a cultural level, peace, freedom, pluralism and progress. Because it is America and because it is such an important country in the world, you will understand perfectly well that we want also to make our links with the United States even closer. Which explains two things. First of all, my presence here accepting a gracious and very kind invitation of President Reagan and my satisfaction because of the course of this conversation we've just held.