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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.

We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'

The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.