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Never Before Has Information Been So Important, To Governments And Businesses Alike. And Please Don't Imagine That Some Of You Gathered Here Today May Be Less Concerned Than Others. Globalization Means That The "butterfly Effect" Is Everywhere At Work. The Mistakes Of A Stockbroker In Singapore Or The Collapse Of The Baht In Bangkok, The Decisions Of A Finnish Industrial Concern, Or What The Governor Of Minas Gerais In Brazil Decides To Do About His State's Debt, Have Had Consequences For The World As A Whole.

Terrorism Takes Us Back To Ages We Thought Were Long Gone If We Allow It A Free Hand To Corrupt Democratic Societies And Destroy The Basic Rules Of International Life.

France Will Never Forget The Men Who Agreed To Make The Supreme Sacrifice To Liberate Our Soil, Our Country, Our Continent From The Yoke Of Nazi Barbarity. It Will Never Forget What It Owes America, Our Eternal Friend. Our Two Peoples Have Stood Shoulder-to-shoulder In The Brotherhood Of Blood Spilled.

Our Approach And Our Vision ... Is Identical.

These Irresponsible Acts, Which Cannot Have Any Justification Whatsoever, Are To Be Fully Condemned. In These Appalling Circumstances, I Want To Offer You The Most Sincere Condolences, Both In My Name And In That Of The French People.