Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I was advised last week by all the NGOs, who are the experts in this area, that the United States would not state a target. In my meeting with many of the G8 leaders last Friday, they told me that the United States has no target. If it has a target then I am wrong, but it was displayed on an excellent chart and clearly put to me that Condoleezza Rice had refused to quote a target. That was the source of my information. President Clinton was right when he said that if his country did half of what we did, he would be very proud of it.

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