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Article: PRESIDENT WELCOMES PRIME MINISTER SINIORA OF LEBANON TO WHITE HOUSE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 18, 2006
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The White House released the following transcript:
The South Lawn
11:51 A.M. EDT
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 ...