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SEA ISLAND, Ga. -- Seeking to build on rare harmony with Europe after a U.N. vote, President Bush on Wednesday proposed a wider but unspecified role for NATO in post-occupation Iraq. French President Jacques Chirac immediately objected.
Apart from the dispute over NATO's role, however, the once- bickering summit partners generally were in wide agreement a day after the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution steering Iraq's new government toward elections next year.See the full content of this document
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U.S., France Spar On Nato
The eight powerful countries, including Russia and France, endorsed Bush's idea of working toward limited political and economic reforms across the broader Middle East but tied such an effort to resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Bush also used the Group of Eig...See the full content of this document
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