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Bush hails relations with German chancellor

US President George W. Bush said Friday his relationship with visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was good and both were committed to putting their differences behind.


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US President George W. Bush said Friday his relationship with visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was good and both were committed to putting their differences behind.

"We have differences in the past, but there is nothing wrong with friends having differences. We are both committed to putting the differences behind us and moving forward," Bush said after meeting with Schroeder.

For his part, Schroeder declared his White House visit a success. "We talked not about the past. We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now," Schroeder said.

This was the first visit to the White House for the German chancellor in more than two years. The two leaders have been trying to mend fences after they bitterly fell out over Germany's strong opposition to the US-led war against Iraq last year.

Their relations have improved after they met at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September.

The United States has welcomed Germany's role in peacekeeping in Afghanistan and contribution to the fight against terrorism.

Schroeder started his US visit in Chicago on Thursday and in a speech, he praised the economic relationship between Germany and the United States as well as Germany's contribution in Afghanistan.

Despite differences between the two countries, "a friendship like the transatlantic one, which is built on values of freedom and pluralism, can best withstand these kinds of differences," he said.


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