Schröder Not Ruling Out Bush Meeting

German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said Friday he has not ruled meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush on his next trip to the United States. "I have not ruled it out that we might see each other in New York," Schröder told reporters in Berlin before meeting with U.S. Senate Committee for Foreign Affairs Chairman Richard Lugar. Schröder, who met earlier this year with U.S. Defence Secretary Colin Powell, is due to travel to the United States on September 22nd for a meeting of the UN General Assembly. Schröder, whose relations with the U.S. have been tense since the German government's decision not to support the war on Iraq, last saw President Bush at the 300th anniversary of St. Petersberg in June.