OBAMA INVITES HOLLANDE TO GROUP OF EIGHT AND NATO SUMMITS
ARMENPRESS
MAY 7, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MAY 7, ARMENPRESS: President Barack Obama invited French
President-elect Francois Hollande to the White House and upcoming
Group of Eight and NATO summits, the White House said.
As Armenpress reports, in a phone call, Obama congratulated Hollande
-- who won France's second and final round of voting Sunday with 51.7
percent of the vote -- saying he looked forward to working with him
"on a range of shared economic and security challenges," the White
House said.
Obama said he would welcome Hollande -- the first Socialist to win
France's presidency since Francois Mitterrand in 1981 -- to Camp David
in Maryland for the G8 Summit May 18-19 and to Chicago for the NATO
summit May 20-21.
Obama is the president of the G8 this year.
Obama also "proposed that they meet beforehand at the White House,"
White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement Sunday night.
Obama and Hollande "reaffirmed the important and enduring alliance
between the people of the United States and France," Carney's
statement said.
ARMENPRESS
MAY 7, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MAY 7, ARMENPRESS: President Barack Obama invited French
President-elect Francois Hollande to the White House and upcoming
Group of Eight and NATO summits, the White House said.
As Armenpress reports, in a phone call, Obama congratulated Hollande
-- who won France's second and final round of voting Sunday with 51.7
percent of the vote -- saying he looked forward to working with him
"on a range of shared economic and security challenges," the White
House said.
Obama said he would welcome Hollande -- the first Socialist to win
France's presidency since Francois Mitterrand in 1981 -- to Camp David
in Maryland for the G8 Summit May 18-19 and to Chicago for the NATO
summit May 20-21.
Obama is the president of the G8 this year.
Obama also "proposed that they meet beforehand at the White House,"
White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement Sunday night.
Obama and Hollande "reaffirmed the important and enduring alliance
between the people of the United States and France," Carney's
statement said.