Thursday, February 14, 2008

V-Day bilateral deal: Just read their lips!

French Socialist party presidential candidate Segolene Royal is kissed by Ecologist Euro-deputy Daniel Cohn-Bendit after delivering a speech during a campaign meeting in Montpellier, southern France, on April 24, 2007.






Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud embraces US President George W. Bush after presenting him with the King Abdul Aziz Order of Merit at the Riyadh Palace in the Saudi capital on January 14.

Bush was in the country to rally support from the regional economic and political powerhouse for his campaign to isolate arch-foe Iran.






President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko (left) kisses the hand of Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko prior to talks in Kiev on September 27, 2007.





US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice greets French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner during a press conference at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on September 21, 2007.

The two countries jointly condemned the killing earlier that week of anti-Syrian Lebanese MP Antoine Ghanem.




French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace in Paris on December 6, 2007, before their Franco-German summit.




US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice greets French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner during a press conference at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on September 21, 2007.

The two countries jointly condemned the killing earlier that week of anti-Syrian Lebanese MP Antoine Ghanem.





Former US senator John Edwards kisses his wife Elizabeth goodbye as she departs just before the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, a fund-raiser for the South Carolina Democratic Party in Columbia, South Carolina, on April 27, 2007.





US President George W. Bush kisses First Lady Laura Bush during a National Adoption Day event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 16, 2007.





Russian President Vladimir Putin kisses a horse as he visits an agro-industrial exhibition in Kalmyk's capital Elista in southern Russia on June 17, 2005.





French Socialist party's first secretary Francois Hollande is kissed by two supporters in Colomiers, south-western France, during a political meeting on September 23, 2006.





Former first lady of Philippines Imelda Marcos kisses a glass case containing the refrigerated remains of her late husband, former Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos, during a visit in Batac, Ilocas Norte, northern Philippines, on September 11, 2005,to mark his 88th birthday anniversary





Germany's Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel kisses European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso after he gave her flowers during the final press conference of the EU Presidency at a European summit in Brussels on June 23, 2007.





UK Labour leader Tony Blair receives a kiss from his wife Cherie after he delivered a speech on the second day of the Labour Party conference at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on October 1, 1996.




Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad embraces a member of the Naturei Karta (Orthodox Jews United against Zionism) during a controversial conference aimed at breaking taboos on the Holocaust, in Tehran on December 12, 2006.

The conference caused international outrage over its hosting of "revisionist" historians who cast doubt on the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II.

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