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| Bush may meet Italy's Prodi in June: report |
| Roma, 12.04.2007 |
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| ROME (AFP) - US President George W. Bush may meet Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi here before or after the Group of Eight (G8) summit June 6-8 in Germany, the ANSA news agency reported Thursday."The meeting may take place during Bush's visit to Europe on the occasion of the G8 summit, and the possibility of a stop in Italy is being considered," Prodi's diplomatic advisor Stefano Sannino told ANSA.
Italian media said the US president might also have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI during his stop in Italy.
Relations between Rome and Washington have been strained in recent months, notably over Italy's military mission in Afghanistan and a plan to enlarge a US military base in northeastern Italy.
In addition, an American marine will go on trial in absentia next Tuesday for voluntary homicide over the killing of Italian secret agent Nicola Calipari, who was shot dead in March 2005 on Baghdad's airport road.
And another trial in absentia concerns 26 US intelligence agents accused in the February 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a street in Milan. The trial, the first involving the CIA's programme of sending terrorism suspects to their home countries to face possible torture -- formally opens on June 8.
Prodi took over from the staunchly pro-US Silvio Berlusconi after hard-fought elections a year ago.
12.04.2007 |
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