Politics > China, U.S. presidents to meet in NY in Sept-Xinhua
Chinese President Hu Jintao will hold a
bilateral meeting with President Bush on the sidelines of the
U.N. gathering of world leaders in New York in September, the
Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
"The two heads of state agreed to hold (a) bilateral
meeting in September at the U.N. summit meeting in New York,"
the official Xinhua news agency quoted a ministry statement as
saying.
Hu and Bush agreed in a telephone conversation on Saturday
to postpone the U.S. leg of Hu's visit to allow Bush to attend
to a crisis over Hurricane Katrina, the statement said.
