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The following is a list of all speeches available online presented in 1997 arranged chronologically starting in January.

 

  Date:                       1/14/1997

  Speaker:                Joseph I. Lieberman

  Title:                        United States Senator

  Speech:                  The U.S. Role in the Middle East Peace Process

  Category:               Middle East

  File:                         Lieberman

  Date:                       1/16/1997

  Speaker:                Steve Forbes

  Title:                        President and Chief Executive Officer, Forbes, Inc.

  Speech:                  What Next for the Economy

  Category:               Economics

  File:                         Forbes

  Date:                       3/25/1997

  Speaker:                Martin Lee

  Title:                        Chairman, Democratic Party, Hong Kong

  Speech:                  The Future of Hong Kong after Midnight, June 30, 1997

  Category:               Asia

  File:                         Lee

  Date:                       4/1/1997

  Speaker:                Bjorn Tore Godal

  Title:                        Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs

  Speech:                  The New Europe: An Atlantic Challenge

  Category:               Europe

  File:                         Godal


  Date:                       4/6/1997

  Speaker:                Lea Rabin

  Title:

  Speech:                  Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy

  Category:               Middle East

  File:                         Rabin

  Date:                       4/7/1997

  Speaker:                Bill Richardson

  Title:                        United States Ambassador to the United Nations

  Speech:

  Category:               Foreign Policy

  File:                         Richardson

  Date:                       4/18/1997

  Speaker:                Mike Chinoy

  Title:                        CNN Hong Kong Bureau Chief

  Speech:                  China Live: Two Decades Inside the Heart of the Dragon

  Category:               Asia

  File:                         Chinoy

  Date:                       6/16/1997

  Speaker:                John Chang

  Title:                        Foreign Minister of the Republic of China on Taiwan

  Speech:                  No Easy Walk to Reunification

  Category:               Asia

  File:                         Chang


  Date:                       6/17/1997

  Speaker:                Michel Camdessus

  Title:                        Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund

  Speech:                  Global Capital Flows: Raising the Returns and Reducing

  Category:               Economics

  File:                         Camdessus

  Date:                       7/23/1997

  Speaker:                Madeleine K. Albright

  Title:                        United States Secretary of State

  Speech:

  Category:               Foreign Policy

  File:                         Albright

  Date:                       8/14/1997

  Speaker:                R. Nicholas Burns

  Title:                        Spokesman, United States Department of State

  Speech:                  Challenges for the Future: American Foreign Policy in the

  Category:               Foreign Policy

  File:                         Burns

  Date:                       9/11/1997

  Speaker:                Emily Lau

  Title:                        Hong Kong Activist and Founder of the Frontier Party

  Speech:

  Category:               Asia

  File:                         Lau


  Date:                       11/7/1997

  Speaker:                His All Holiness Bartholomew I

  Title:                        Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of

  Speech:                  The New Cultural Divide

  Category:               Religion

  File:                         Bartholemew

  Date:                       11/14/1997

  Speaker:                Vaclav Klaus

  Title:                        Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

  Speech:                  The Czech Republic, NATO and European Union

  Category:               Europe

  File:                         Klaus

  Date:                       11/17/1997

  Speaker:                Benjamin Netanyahu

  Title:                        Prime Minister of Israel

  Speech:                  Israel: Going Into the Twenty-First Century

  Category:               Middle East

  File:                         Netanyahu

  Date:                       11/18/1997

  Speaker:                S. Jayakumar

  Title:                        Minister for Foreign Affairs, Republic of Singapore

  Speech:                  ASEAN at Thirty: Accomplishments and Challenges

  Category:               Asia

  File:                         Jayakum


  Date:                       12/10/1997

  Speaker:                Anne Wilhelm Bijleveld

  Title:                        Representative to the U.S. of the U.N. High Commissioner

  Speech:                  The State of the World's Refugees: A Humanitarian Agenda

  Category:               Humanitarian Affairs

  File:                         Bijlevel