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| Middle East |
| Bush meets Soddy foreign minister |
| 2002-06-14 |
| U.S. President George W. Bush exchanged ideas on the Middle East with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal on Thursday as he prepared to advance U.S. proposals for ending Israeli-Palestinian violence and finding an elusive peace. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Bush and Prince Saud had a "warm meeting" of about 20 minutes in the Oval Office, Bush's third meeting in the past week with a regional leader as he seeks to draw up a road map to a Middle East settlement. "They exchanged a variety of ideas about how to move forward and the president enjoyed the visit," Fleischer said. He said the two leaders engaged in a general discussion and did not get into a "specific-by-specific" discussion. He's obviously putting something together. Sharon seems okay, Mubarak's cheezed at him, and Faisal sez he's happy... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |