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The Azores: An isolated crossroads
CNN.com ^
| March 14, 2003
Posted on 03/15/2003 12:45:01 AM PST by HAL9000
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar will convene a one-day emergency summit on the idyllic and isolated isles, hosted by Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso. The meeting, officially to examine prospects for a U.N. resolution on Iraq, will occur on the island of Terceira, home since 1951 to a U.S. air base in Lajes.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: anzar; azores; azoresislands; blair; britain; bush; portugal; spain
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posted on
03/15/2003 12:45:01 AM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
There seems to be no significant purpose to this meeting. I can't help but wonder if Bush is really meeting with someone else.
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posted on
03/15/2003 4:19:32 AM PST
by
Outrance
To: Outrance
Its a war council although for PR reasons none of the participants is officially calling it that. But its apparently to coordinate their wartime moves and barring a French change of heart that what seems to be on the agenda when the President meets Tony Blair and Jose Aznar this weekend.
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