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Article: PRESIDENT BUSH MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER SAMAK OF THAILAND
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 6, 2008
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The White House released the following transcript:
Government House7:51 P.M. (Local)
PRIME MINISTER SAMAK: We are pleased to welcome President Bush visit to Thailand on the auspicious occasion of the celebration of 175th anniversary of Thai-U.S. relations. As Thailand has now assumed the ASEAN chairmanship, we will use the opportunity to strengthen our engagement and cooperation with the U.S. both bilaterally and through ASEAN.
President Bush and I had just a very good discussion on several issues of common interest. We discussed the strengthening of the close military and the security cooperation which benefit both countries and the region. A case in point is our military close partnership ...