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Bon Jour, Mr. Bush

Aired June 02, 2003 - 06:05   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Bon jour, President Bush, the president is in Evian, France right now. As you know, the G-8 summit is under way. So, are relations still downright chilly between the American president and French President Jacques Chirac?
We take you live to Evian now and Robin Oakley.

Good morning -- Robin.

ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN SR. EUROPEAN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

And the Swiss president, who has been one of those attending these proceedings here, said of the George Bush-Jacques Chirac relationship, "When the elephants fight, the whole forest trembles." Well, I think we can say that at this G-8 summit now the forest has stopped trembling, because we've had a scene of reconciliation in front of the media between Jacques Chirac and President Bush.

And Jacques Chirac has offered his whole-hearted support for the president's Middle East initiative. George Bush has thanked Jacques Chirac for his support in the latest U.N. resolution on post-conflict Iraq.

And the president, President Bush, signaled really that the moment of reconciliation had arrived.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, people in both of our countries were wondering whether or not we could actually sit down and have a comfortable conversation, and the answer is absolutely.

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OAKLEY: That means, really, that this G-8 summit, although President Bush will shortly be leaving it to carry on with that Middle East peace initiative in Egypt, can now concentrate on tackling problems of the world economy and the problems of developing nations, Carol.

The real essence of this meeting was that they should be able to demonstrate the ability to get on to help to put some confidence back into the world economy. But we're not going to see anything very specific in terms of the final communique here about the slide of the dollar against the euro, which is worrying euro's own countries and Japan, hitting their exports and, they think, hitting world growth.

We will see something, though, in terms of the initiative against global terrorism with the U.S. and the U.K. pushing for greater interception powers on ships and planes that might be carrying chemical and biological warfare materials -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Robin Oakley live from Evian, France this morning.

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Aired June 2, 2003 - 06:05   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Bon jour, President Bush, the president is in Evian, France right now. As you know, the G-8 summit is under way. So, are relations still downright chilly between the American president and French President Jacques Chirac?
We take you live to Evian now and Robin Oakley.

Good morning -- Robin.

ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN SR. EUROPEAN POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

And the Swiss president, who has been one of those attending these proceedings here, said of the George Bush-Jacques Chirac relationship, "When the elephants fight, the whole forest trembles." Well, I think we can say that at this G-8 summit now the forest has stopped trembling, because we've had a scene of reconciliation in front of the media between Jacques Chirac and President Bush.

And Jacques Chirac has offered his whole-hearted support for the president's Middle East initiative. George Bush has thanked Jacques Chirac for his support in the latest U.N. resolution on post-conflict Iraq.

And the president, President Bush, signaled really that the moment of reconciliation had arrived.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, people in both of our countries were wondering whether or not we could actually sit down and have a comfortable conversation, and the answer is absolutely.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OAKLEY: That means, really, that this G-8 summit, although President Bush will shortly be leaving it to carry on with that Middle East peace initiative in Egypt, can now concentrate on tackling problems of the world economy and the problems of developing nations, Carol.

The real essence of this meeting was that they should be able to demonstrate the ability to get on to help to put some confidence back into the world economy. But we're not going to see anything very specific in terms of the final communique here about the slide of the dollar against the euro, which is worrying euro's own countries and Japan, hitting their exports and, they think, hitting world growth.

We will see something, though, in terms of the initiative against global terrorism with the U.S. and the U.K. pushing for greater interception powers on ships and planes that might be carrying chemical and biological warfare materials -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Robin Oakley live from Evian, France this morning.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.