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Article: The President's news conference with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan.(Week Ending Friday, June 30, 2006)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- July 3, 2006
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June 29, 2006
President Bush. Thank you all. Please be seated. Mr. Prime Minister, as I said on the South Lawn, we are delighted to have you here in Washington. The Prime Minister and I have got a very friendly relationship. We've just had 2 hours of discussions. We talked about a lot of areas of mutual concern. I've reminded the Prime Minister--the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months, that it was not always a given that the United States and America [Japan] * would have a close relationship. After all, 60 years we were at war--60 years ago, we were at war, and today we talked about North Korea and Iran and Iraq and trade and energy ...