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Bush Receives Royal Welcome

Aired November 19, 2003 - 13:07   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check in with CNN's European political editor Robin Oakley. Robin, what do you know?
ROBIN OAKLEY,CNN EUROPEAN POLITICAL EDITOR: Well, Kyra, President Bush has had pretty well what he wanted out of this day in London.

Of course he had, first of all, a wonderful ceremonial of an official welcome at Buckingham Palace, where he stayed the night anyway. A 41-gun salute from the King's Troupe of the Royal Horse Artillery (sic), the Househeld (sic) Calvry and thier plumes, the Grenedier Guards (ph) drawn up for him to inspect.

Those were the kind of scenes he wanted for the presidential scrapbook, ahead of an election year.

But, of course, he didn't get the one treat that a lot of other visiting heads of state had, including President Putin of Russia, when he was here in June. He didn't have a ride down the mall in an open carriage with the queen because that was considered too much of a security risk for the U.S. president.

Mr. Bush went on, of course, to make a major international affairs speech, in which he defended the role in Iraq, of Britain and the U.S., and a speech in which he tried to reach out to some of his critics in Europe by saying that he wasn't really the unilateralist that many accused him of being, that he was willing to work through international alliances and international institutions.

He issued a warning, too, that those international institutions must live up to their objectives, and not just pass resolutions. He said he and Tony Blair were determined to ensure the United Nations didn't resolve itself into irrelevance -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Robin Oakley, out of London, thank you.

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Aired November 19, 2003 - 13:07   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check in with CNN's European political editor Robin Oakley. Robin, what do you know?
ROBIN OAKLEY,CNN EUROPEAN POLITICAL EDITOR: Well, Kyra, President Bush has had pretty well what he wanted out of this day in London.

Of course he had, first of all, a wonderful ceremonial of an official welcome at Buckingham Palace, where he stayed the night anyway. A 41-gun salute from the King's Troupe of the Royal Horse Artillery (sic), the Househeld (sic) Calvry and thier plumes, the Grenedier Guards (ph) drawn up for him to inspect.

Those were the kind of scenes he wanted for the presidential scrapbook, ahead of an election year.

But, of course, he didn't get the one treat that a lot of other visiting heads of state had, including President Putin of Russia, when he was here in June. He didn't have a ride down the mall in an open carriage with the queen because that was considered too much of a security risk for the U.S. president.

Mr. Bush went on, of course, to make a major international affairs speech, in which he defended the role in Iraq, of Britain and the U.S., and a speech in which he tried to reach out to some of his critics in Europe by saying that he wasn't really the unilateralist that many accused him of being, that he was willing to work through international alliances and international institutions.

He issued a warning, too, that those international institutions must live up to their objectives, and not just pass resolutions. He said he and Tony Blair were determined to ensure the United Nations didn't resolve itself into irrelevance -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Robin Oakley, out of London, thank you.

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