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This release contains White House Exchange Mail records dated January 1998 to October 1999. Most of it is a transcript of a January 29, 1998 press briefing by Press Secretary Mike McCurry covering Iraq, Iran, the budget and the Lewinsky inquiry, plus a 1998 presidential speech. An October 19, 1999 email among Transnational Threats staff forwards a Florida Today article on how scientists expect alien contact would spark a media frenzy rather than a cover-up, describing the 1989 SETI detection protocol.
Page 5 of 28 Q That was on the Voice of America? extent to which diplomacy may or may not bear fruit, and the degree to http://classified/email/data_source/exchange/record/cd008/janl998/34edab55.html 1/5/2010 aware that we have formally agreed to any exchange, but I think the President is indicating to the people of Iran in this statement that those kinds of exchanges could be fruitful. MR. MCCURRY: I again stress to you that the President has not made i decision on use of force, so our consultations are about the situation that we are i MR. MCCURRY: This is the annual message that he prepares that is distributed both by - or reported on by the Voice of America and distributed by US Worldnet. Q Mike, a few months ago, Foreign Minister Primakov made the usual rounds — in what was supposed to be a diplomatic solution, but Saddam Hussein kic out the American inspectors, all kinds of problems. It seems that Prime Ministe Primakov is doing the same thing. Ms. Albright is on her way to meet al foreign leaders. Is there any way the U.S. will accept a solution from Primakov at this time? MR. MCCURRY: It's not a solution by any individual government that seek, it's the willingness of the government of Iraq to meet its international obligations, to allow the inspections to take place that are necessary to determine the extent and capacity of his programs in weapons of mass destruction. And it's Iraq's obstinacy when it comes to those inspections that is now i purpose of international diplomacy. And we certainly hope and expect t any diplomacy undertaken by members of the Security Council will be direc at conveying that very strong message to the government of Iraq. We have reason to believe that the Russian Federation has communicated any message tl that. Q Mike, on Russia and Iraq, is the United States making any progress - China, too — on persuading its allies that force might be possible in Iraq military strike might be possible, those who have been most resistant to in the past? 34EDAB55.FIN
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