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  • Seize the moment, Brown urges US ( renew the "special relationship for our generation" )

    03/04/2009 3:01:19 PM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 7 replies · 318+ views
    BBC ^ | Wednesday, 4 March 2009 22:20 GMT, | BBC Staff
    Gordon Brown has urged the US to renew the "special relationship for our generation" in a speech to Congress Mr Brown, the fifth UK prime minister in history to address both houses on Capitol Hill, urged the US and UK to push for "essential" economic changes. Neither nation should "succumb" to protectionism "which protects no-one", but "seize the moment", he said. Mr Brown also announced that veteran Senator Edward Kennedy would receive an honorary UK knighthood. The prime minister paid tribute to the work of US troops in Afghanistan and said terrorists could "not ever destroy the American spirit". The...