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29 June 2004 - 13:23 AMT

JACQUES CHIRAC CONDEMNED GEORGE BUSH IN EXCESSIVE SUPPORT OF TURKEY

French President Jacques Chirac sharply criticized US leader George Bush, who actively defended Turkey’s urge to become a European Union member last Sunday. “President Bush not only went too far, but also trespassed on the territory, which does not belong to him,” Chirac said in the course of the NATO Summit in Istanbul yesterday. It is almost the same as if Europe taught the US how to build relations with Mexico, the French leader added.