Middle East issues rather than NI

There seems to be some dispute over the meaning of siting the Bush Blair talks in Hillsborough. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer suggested the fcous would be on Iraq:

…the status of the ongoing military operation, they will talk about the humanitarian relief efforts, they’ll talk about reconstruction and they’ll talk about the role of the United Nations.”

Oh, and there’s to be some talk about Northern Ireland.


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