(24 Jan 2004)
1. Wide of stage
2. Cheney walking up steps
3. Cheney walking on stage
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Cheney, US Vice President:
"In the words of the recently published EU security strategy, the terrorists are willing to use unlimited violence to cause massive casualties. We must act with all urgency that this danger demands. Civilised people must do everything in our power to defeat terrorism and to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. These tasks that we face are tasks that we will face far into the future and our success will depend on meeting three fundamental responsibilities. First, we must confront the ideologies of violence at the source by promoting democracy throughout the greater Middle East and beyond. Second, we must meet these dangers together. Cooperation among our governments and effective international institutions are even more important today than they have been in the past. And third, when democracy fails we must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary. Direct threats require decisive action."
5. Audience listening
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Cheney, US Vice President:
"Different situations will require different strategies. Along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia, America is determined to see that North Korea eliminates its nuclear programme. We are supporting the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency to hold the government of Iran to its committment not to develop nuclear weapons. We must remain united in demanding that Iran meet its international commitments."
7. Audience
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Cheney, US Vice President
"There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point we must show that behind our resolutions is actual resolve. As President Bush has said, our people have given us the duty to defend them and that duty sometimes requires the violent restraint of violent men."
9. Audience clapping
STORYLINE:
Democratic nations must join together to fight terrorism and the spread of the world's most dangerous weapons, but if diplomacy fails, they must be prepared to use force, United States Vice President Dick Cheney said on Saturday.
In a speech made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Cheney defended the US-led invasion of Iraq, yet struck a conciliatory tone to ease trans-Atlantic relations strained by the war.
Ideologies of violence must be confronted at the source by nurturing democracy throughout the Middle East and beyond, Cheney said at the forum held in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos.
Cooperation among governments and international institutions is even more important today than in the past, he said.
The vice president insisted, however, that if diplomatic efforts aren't enough to defeat terrorism and stop the proliferation of weapons, the US and other nations must be prepared to use force.
Cheney was speaking to the more than 1,500 world political, corporate and opinion leaders gathered to discuss security, economic and other global issues.
Last year at the forum, when anti-Americanism sentiment ran high, Secretary of State Colin Powell took the podium for the United States and
called on all nations to back U.S. efforts to force Iraq to disarm.
The Bush administration used Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion, but no weapons have been found.
Still, with the Iraqi regime ousted and Saddam in US custody, Cheney faced a less hostile audience.
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