Bush to visit Albania in June 10

WASHINGTON, April 24 – President George W. Bush will visit in June 10 Albania along his regional tour and participation at a G8 meeting, the White House reported Tuesday. Bush flies to Tirana to meet with President Alfred Moisiu and Prime Minister Sali Berisha. The protocol list may likely include other local personalities.
Berisha considered Bush’s visit to Albania as historic, expressing gratitude and proud of the assistance that the American people and government has given to the tiny Balkan country. “The visit is a big encouragement to continue this course of reforms, our effort to establish and consolidate the rule of law.” Said Berisha at a government meeting the next day.
Bush visits the Czech Republic and Poland before and after the June 6-8 summit meeting of the Group of Eight industrial countries at a German Baltic resort, Heiligendamm, according to a White House announcement. Bush will be in Europe June 5-11. He will stop June 5 in Prague, the Czech capital, en route to the G-8 summit. After the summit, at a historic hotel in what used to be East Germany, Bush will fly directly to Poland for his June 8 meeting with Polish President Lech Kaczynski. He is scheduled to be at the Vatican on June 9 for his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI and then meetings in Rome with Italian authorities. After Tirana, Bush ends the whirlwind tour June 11 with meetings in Bulgaria.