Bosnia - Clinton family visit

(22 Dec 1997) T/I: 11:11:36


US President Bill Clinton flew in to the main US base in Bosnia at Tuzla on Monday afternoon (22/12) to bring Christmas cheer to the American troops in the country. He was accompanied by his wife Hillary, daughter Chelsea and a group of US legislators.

SHOWS:

TUZLA, BOSNIA 22/12
WS of the Tuzla army base;
MS of US president Bill Clinton being cheered as he arrives on the stage;
SOT US President Bill Clinton (in English) "Thank you for that laid back welcome...thank you General Ellis, Ladies and Gentlemen I have come here with a great delegation of Americans including the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Army, Chairman of the joint Chiefs of staff, supreme allied commander in Europe and many other distingished military offical and officials from the White House and a truely astonishing delegation from Congress of both democrats and republicans
together."
SOT US Presdient Bill Clinton (in English) "We came here first of all to say thank you to all of you. What you are doing for your country is a good and noble thing you are doing it well and we are grateful, we know its hard to be away from home at christmas time, we know its tough to be away from your families but you are doing something profoundly important.";
SOT Clinton (in English) "They made an agreement at Dayton that we are doing our dead level best to help them enforce and they promised that they would live and work together to build one country without ethnic prejudice or unfairness to any group. That will not only end the war but they would build a peace together and that we in the US were determined not only to do our part but we expected them to do theirs and these good people in Bosnia these little children who have suffered so much they deserve the leaders that honour those agreements made at Dayton and build a better brighter future.";
SOT Senator Robert Dole (in English) "Hopefully one of these days very soon there will be a successful conclusion and these three countries can govern themselves and you can go home and we will be very grateful for your service to the USA and to people of Bosnia-Herzegovina.";
VS of US President Clinton shaking hands with US troops;

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