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Putin Has Weekend Meeting at Camp David With President Bush

Aired September 25, 2003 - 05:07   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the U.S. for a weekend meeting at Camp David with President Bush.
Our Moscow bureau chief, Jill Dougherty, joins us from Moscow with a preview of the scheduled summit -- hi, Jill.

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol.

Well, in the New York visit at the United Nations, Mr. Putin will be speaking today, 10:00 Eastern time, and he will be speaking for about 25 minutes. And, you know, this is really the institution that Vladimir Putin wants to basically solve all of the problems in the world. He believes that the U.N. should be the primary instrument for settlement of issues.

He's going to be talking about several things, but especially the war on terror and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Of course, Iraq will be center stage, as well. And Mr. Putin has made it very clear that he believes, still believes, that the war was a mistake and he says what's going on now proves him right.

He points out that terrorists are infiltrating the country and he said under Saddam Hussein, they weren't allowed in the country. In fact, some of them were killed. But that aside, he said now the U.N. has to focus on the post-war situation.

And he also said that he wants a real role for the United Nations, not just a decorative role.

Also, while he was in New York Wednesday, he went to a fire station where Russian firefighters and U.S. firefighters are training together. They commemorated some of the firefighters who died in 9/11. He said that the fact that there are new volunteers shows that the U.S. is, as he put it, a strong and healthy nation.

Mr. Putin gave the firefighters two gifts, two helmets, one, a real one from firefighters here in Russia; and another one that's made out of porcelain. And then the firefighters, the U.S. ones, gave him a helmet and a jacket with his name on it.

Friday, Saturday, we're going to be seeing Mr. Putin up at Camp David, the presidential retreat outside of Washington, meeting with President Bush, very informal. And Mr. Putin told us this past weekend that they have a very open relationship and they're able to discuss everything, even the things that they don't agree on -- Carol. LIN: In the meantime, Jill, we hear that there's a deck of cards floating around your neck of the woods very similar to the most wanted cards that the Bush administration liked to use to characterize their hunt for Saddam Hussein's administration.

What's that about?

DOUGHERTY: Right. Well, it's not a hunt, Carol, but it is -- there's a Russian newspaper that's put out this deck of cards, 36 cards. And each one of them has a politician or a leading person in the Bush administration. They don't say it's a hit list. They say that this is an explanation of who is who. So they have, for instance, the hearts are the family. That's like George Bush, Sr. is the ace of hearts.

LIN: Oh, that's Condoleezza Rice we're looking at. We just saw a picture of Condoleezza Rice.

DOUGHERTY: Yes, yes, lots of details. And, you know, they have Condoleezza Rice and they even have the spades -- they say the ace of spades are the neo-conservatives.

LIN: All right, enough said. Let's hope that Mr. Putin is not taking a deck with him to the United Nations. It might not fly.

Thanks so much.

DOUGHERTY: Right.

LIN: Jill Dougherty reporting live from Moscow.

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