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President Bush, mulling whether to send U.S. troops to enforce a fragile cease-fire in Liberia, is ready to face the world leader who has pushed most aggressively for American intervention in the strife-torn West African nation.
Bush and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan were to sit down Monday to an agenda jammed with global hotspots and seemingly intractable problems. Like Bush, who returned late Saturday from a tour of five sub-Saharan nations, Annan is just back from Africa, where he attended the African Union summit in Mozambique.
On their plate: the ongoing conflict in Congo, postwar Iraq, Afghanistan, the U.S.-led war on terrorism, the search for peace in the Mideast, and efforts to battle poverty and AIDS around the world.
It is the first meeting between Bush and Annan since Dec. 20, and since a divisive U.N. debate over a resolution - ultimately withdrawn when faced with certain defeat - backing a U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime.
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