Schroeder meets new Spanish leader

[rodbarnett]

MADRID – German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was to meet Spanish Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero in Madrid Wednesday following a state funeral service for the 190 people killed by terrorists in the Spanish capital on 11 March.

Schroeder was among dozens of heads of state and government who were part of the congregation of 1,500.

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Shortly before the midday service, Zapatero, who have pressure from members of the US-led coalition in Iraq to drop his plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, met briefly with British Prime Minister Tony Blair

Zapatero told Blair that Spain will maintain its 1,300 troops in Iraq only if the United Nations assumes a "central role" there, diplomats said.


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comment : the waffle iron is heating up!

[bobbieinok]

1. did any US rep attend?? what level??

[madrchsod]

2. Powell was sent

he will probably be ignored. this is how far our country has fallen