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Bush, Schroeder stress common goals at talks
| The German talks seem not to have been as tense as the talks with France. I credit TGA. |
 Visiting US President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder emphasised their common policy goals on Wednesday, citing such issues as Iran's nuclear ambition, the Mideast peace process and Iraq's reconstruction, while declaring that they had put their past disagreements behind them. At a press conference after about 90 minutes of bilateral talks in Mainz, the two leaders stressed the message of transatlantic cooperation in dealing with issues facing the globe. Both acknowledged there had been differences between the United States and Germany, but there were overriding common positions. "We cannot deny that in the past there were different views (on Iraq)," Schroeder said about the main point which had severely strained US-German ties. "But this is past ... We have a common interest that there should be a stable, democratic Iraq." | And so on and so forth, more diplospeak... |
Posted by: Seafarious 2005-02-24 |
