U.S. President Bill Clinton listens to the speech by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder after he was decorated with the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen, June 2. Schroeder, honouring Clinton's contribution to European peace on Friday, warned him against upsetting the global arms balance with a new missile system. In a speech prepared for delivery in Aachen before awarding Clinton the annual Charlemagne Prize for peace, Schroeder told his guest that U.S. plans for a National Missile Defence should be debated within the Atlantic alliance.

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