OBAMA INVITES HOLLANDE TO GROUP OF EIGHT AND NATO SUMMITS

ARMENPRESS
MAY 7, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, MAY 7, ARMENPRESS: President Barack Obama invited French
President-elect Francois Hollande to the White House and upcoming
Group of Eight and NATO summits, the White House said.

As Armenpress reports, in a phone call, Obama congratulated Hollande
— who won France’s second and final round of voting Sunday with 51.7
percent of the vote — saying he looked forward to working with him
“on a range of shared economic and security challenges,” the White
House said.

Obama said he would welcome Hollande — the first Socialist to win
France’s presidency since Francois Mitterrand in 1981 — to Camp David
in Maryland for the G8 Summit May 18-19 and to Chicago for the NATO
summit May 20-21.

Obama is the president of the G8 this year.

Obama also “proposed that they meet beforehand at the White House,”
White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement Sunday night.

Obama and Hollande “reaffirmed the important and enduring alliance
between the people of the United States and France,” Carney’s
statement said.