U.S. President George W. Bush will meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the White House on April 17 for talks on a range of security issues including Iraq and Iran, a White House statement said Friday.
"The president looks forward to continuing his regular consultations with the prime minister on our shared goals of advancing freedom and strengthening security and democracy in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere," the statement said.
The two leaders will discuss "increasing international pressure on Iran to prevent it from obtaining the means to build nuclear weapons; and improving our efforts to combat international terrorism," the statement added.
Britain is a traditional strong ally of the United States. Brown, who replaced Tony Blair as the British leader last summer, said last October that Britain will slash its troops in Iraq by half starting from the spring of 2008.
Some 4,500 British troops are currently deployed in Iraq.
Source: Xinhua
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