Foreign Policy: World's Strongest Force for Peace, Freedom and Prosperity

Promoting Peace and Strengthening Democracy

• Achieved victory and ended ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, by leading the 79-day NATO air campaign in Kosovo that successfully compelled Milosevic to withdraw Serb troops, permit an international security force to enter and allow refugees to return to their homes in safety.
• Restored momentum to the Middle East peace process, brokering the Wye River Memorandum and visiting Israel and Gaza.
• Led efforts that produced Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland, ending decades of bloodshed.
• Building a self-sustaining peace in Bosnia through implementation of the Dayton Peace accords.
• Restored democracy in Haiti, ending military dictatorship and stopping refugee flows.
• Helped settle Peru-Ecuador border dispute and end civil war in Guatemala.
• Pressing for human rights, core labor standards, religious freedom, and the elimination of child labor worldwide.

Combating New Threats

• Protecting Americans from Weapons of Mass Destruction by reducing Russian nuclear arsenals, ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention, and signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
• Combating terrorism by developing a national counterterrorism strategy and striking terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan.
• Addressing threats to our infrastructure like cyberterrorism and biological and chemical weapons. Containing Saddam Hussein through diplomacy, economic sanctions and military force.
• Preventing North Korea from developing nuclear weapons through deterrence, diplomacy and non-proliferation.
• Improving military readiness through increased defense spending.

Strengthening Alliances and Building Partnerships

• Built a stronger and larger NATO to ensure a more stable, democratic Europe and a fully-integrated Russia.
• Deepening security alliances with Japan and South Korea.
• Built more constructive relationship with China through engagement and frank dialogue on human rights, security and trade.
• Expanding trade relations and strengthening democracy in Asia and Latin America.
• Building partnerships with Africa during historic Presidential trip.

Expanding Prosperity

• Opening markets abroad through NAFTA, GATT and 270 other free trade agreements.
• Negotiated historic U.S.-China trade agreement which will significantly lower Chinese tariffs, and ensure fair treatment for both American businesses in China and American workers here at home.
• Addressing global economic crisis by leading international relief efforts and stimulating worldwide growth.
• Leading efforts to establish world finance and trade systems for 21st century economy that benefits ordinary citizens in all countries.

Last Updated December 1999

The Clinton-Gore Economic Record

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