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Bush Meets With World Leaders Following Speech to U.N. Today

Aired November 10, 2001 - 17:06   ET

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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush is in New York where he is meeting privately with other world leaders following his speech to the United Nations General Assembly this morning and CNN's senior White House correspondent John King has more.

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JOHN KING, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The president's speech included a pointed warning to nations he says are still turning a blind eye to terrorists.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: For every regime that sponsors terror, there is a price to be paid and it will be paid. The allies of terror are equally guilty of murder and equally accountable to justice.

KING: Mr. Bush did not name names or say what the price might be. But Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, top the administration's list of states that sponsor terrorism and harbor terror groups.

BUSH: History will record response and judge or justify every nation in this hall.

KING: Osama bin Laden said in an interview published Saturday that he has chemical and nuclear weapons. The United States believes that claim is exaggerated. But Mr. Bush raised the issue when warning leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly that their country could be the next target.

BUSH: In all the world faces the most horrifying prospect of all, these same terrorists are searching for weapons of mass destruction. The tools to turn their hatred into holocaust.

KING: This meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan included talk of a lead United Nations role in building a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan.

Also on tap is a face-to-face meeting with a critical ally in the war, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan. In addition to discussion military strategy, U.S. officials say Mr. Bush will offer a new infusion of U.S. economic assistance, in the range of $300 million to $500 million.

John King, CNN New York. (END VIDEOTAPE)

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