Posted on 01/25/2004 5:43:51 AM PST by knighthawk
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has extended to Georgian President-elect Mikheil Saakashvili an invitation by the US President George Bush to visit the USA on 25 February. Speaking at a news briefing ahead of the inaugural ceremony in Tbilisi, Colin Powell said that the US president and the people of the USA looked forward to Mikheil Saakashvili's visit.
"President Bush is looking forward to meeting the new president as soon as possible and I have extended to the new president President Bush's invitation for him to visit the United States on 25 February," Powell said.
"The president, all of us, the American people look forward to seeing him in the United States on 25 February," He said.
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