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Article: Remarks following discussions with Prime Minister Fuad Siniora of Lebanon.(Week Ending Friday, April 21, 2006)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- April 24, 2006
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April 18, 2006
President Bush. It's been my honor to welcome the Prime Minister of Lebanon to the Oval Office. Prime Minister, thanks for coming.
Prime Minister Siniora. Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity.
President Bush. Well, we just had a really interesting discussion. I told the Prime Minister that the United States strongly supports a free and independent and sovereign Lebanon. We took great joy in seeing the Cedar Revolution. We understand that the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the street to express their desire to be free required courage, and we support the desire of the people to have a government ...