Photos of the First Lady's 10 day solo European trip to Paris, Budapest and Prague ....
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While touring an Afghan exhibit at the Musee Guinet in Paris Mrs Bush pledged to ask wealthy US philantrophist to help restore Afghanistan's two Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban last year and called on the President's administration to help salvage Afghan art. She condemned teenage suicide bombings in the Middle East, Russia and Pakistan in a speech to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In Budapest she comforted cancer patients during a visit to the National Institute of Oncology. The First Lady announced a grant of $500,000 dollars in US aid dedicated to American-Hungarian health care cooperation. Later she toured St. Matthias Church overlooking Budapest with U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, Nancy Brinker, a longtime friend of Mrs. Bush from Dallas. In Prague Mrs Bush speaks with U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic as they join representatives of many nations gathered to pay respect to Jews and prisoners of war held at the Terezin Nazi concentration camp near Prague. She laid a wreath and a bouquet of lillies to mark the anniversary of Terezin's liberation by the Soviet Red Army in May 1945.