George W Bush and Gordon Brown comment on troop numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan: Press conference
George W Bush and Gordon Brown comment on troop numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan: Press conference; -- We discussed the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe. In recent weeks under Robert Mugabe's increasingly desperate and criminal regime, Zimbabwe has seen 53 killings, 2,000 beatings, the displacement of 30,000 people, the arrest and detention of opposition leaders, including Morgan Tsvangirai, and this is wholly unacceptable. Mugabe must not be allowed to steal the election that is now less than two weeks away, and that is we call for Zimbabwe to accept a United Nations human rights envoy to visit Zimbabwe now, and to accept the international monitors from all parts of the world who are available to ensure that this is a free and fair election.
We agreed that at the G8 in Japan the United Kingdom and the USA would propose a plan to recruit and train health workers for the poorest countries, to save the lives of mothers who needlessly die in childbirth, we are developing proposals to tackle the diseases that bring needless death and suffering, including malaria, Aids and neglected tropical diseases. And we agreed also to work together to ensure G8 commitments to scale up funding on education and get the remaining 72 million children who do not go to school today, into school.
The world oil price has trebled in recent months. In the light of this I welcome Saudi Arabia's initiative to host a Producer-Consumer Summit in Jeddah on 22 June and we will all work together to ensure an enhanced dialogue between oil producers and consumers.
And the President and I also agreed that over the next few weeks we need to press hard to achieve a world trade deal. Both of us are ensured that this could unlock new opportunities for the world economy, it would also help reduce high global food prices.
Finally, we go from here to Northern Ireland. The United States has played an essential role in securing peace in Northern Ireland and helping the people of Northern Ireland move...
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