Bush, Kazakh leader trade compliments in Oval Office meeting
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush heaped praise yesterday on the president of Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country important to the United States as an oil supplier and war-on-terror ally, but which has a political system that stifles dissent.
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Is a tense meeting in the cards for President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin? "Could be," even Bush admits.
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine  - U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin held oceanside talks on Monday to try to ease tensions that have taken their countries' relations to a post-Cold War low.
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US President George W. Bush praised presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan as &quot;two courageous leaders&quot; worthy of US help as they prepared for three-way talks next week.
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President Bush held a rare Saturday Oval Office meeting to host Pakistanâs President, General Pervez Musharraf, one of its administration&#39;s most important allies in the war on terror.
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Talks between Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his Latvian counterpart Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who arrived in Kazakhstan for a state visit on Thursday, ended in Astana on Friday.
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President George Bush last night welcomed his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to his summer retreat in Kennebunkport, Maine, at the start of an encounter of less than 24 hours designed to patch up deteriorating relations between the two powers.
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President Bush meets Afghan President Karzai,  dismissing reported tensions between him and  Pakistan's leader.
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U.S. President George W. Bush tried to calm rising tensions with Moscow over a planned missile defense system ahead of a meeting Thursday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the world's richest nations.
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President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he values his partnership with President Bush, but voiced suspicion that Washington might be behind what the Kremlin sees as efforts to isolate Russia - and even ...
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US President George W. Bush and his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf promised here on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation in the war on terror and in the areas of trade and economy.
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President Bush was quick to express solidarity with the Russian people last week after the terrorist attack on a Russian school that left more than 330 dead.
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President Bush met yesterday with Afghanistan President Harmid  Karzai and last Friday with Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Tonight, joined by Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, he will bring both men into the old family dining room of the White House for a...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan signaled an improvement in relations after an unusually cordial meeting.
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President Vladimir Putin said he valued the partnership of President George W. Bush, but voiced suspicion the US might be behind what the Kremlin sees as efforts to isolate Russia and even destabilize it.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed President Bush as a "predictable partner" Wednesday and said that if his lead in the U.S. election is confirmed, it would mean the American people had not given in to the threats of international terrorists.
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Treading a fine line between US strategic goals and his drive for global democratization, President George W. Bush Friday hosts Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of oil-rich, Muslim-majority Kazakhstan.