Around Moscow
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
Street elite) "to come clean over their actual losses." Britain thinks it would bring an element of certainty to the situation, calm the jittery markets and stabilize the cost of credits. But the Americans said they had already done enough.It is unlikely that Bush will persuade Brown to renounce his plans to cut the British contingent in Iraq and Afghanistan. Otherwise Brown's reputation at home would be ruined. Britain has 4,000 troops in Iraq (they have been withdrawn to barracks in Basra) and 8,000 troops in Afghanistan.
One of Brown's statements in particular reveals how little was expected from the visit and what Brown's plight is at home. While in the United States, Brown declared that London was prepared to play the role of a trans-Atlantic bridge for establishing a new mutual understanding between Europe and the United States. Almost every British prime minister seems to "rediscover" this idea because they are all anxious to assure a place in
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