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| | Remarks With NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer |
 | | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is new Secretary General, but not really new to the State Department, because I have gotten to know him very well during the time he served as the distinguished Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, and we got a lot of work done. |
 | | It was a pleasure to be here again now in my new capacity, indeed, as Secretary General of an alliance which is second to none, which is the unique political and also security organization in the world, at the moment, expanding and enlarging its responsibility in Afghanistan. |
 | | SECRETARY POWELL: Well, you know, I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when the Cold War came to an end and under the leadership of then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, we withdrew almost 200,000 troops from Europe, many of whom came out of Germany, of course, and England and many other places. |
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