U.S. President George W. Bush and President Hu Jintao of China have agreed to postpone their meeting next week because of Hurricane Katrina. The two world leaders spoke in a telephone conversation where they "agreed that, in the present circumstances, it was best not to have a meeting in Washington next week; and they agreed to reschedule the visit of President Hu to another mutually convenient time," the White House said in a statement yesterday, according to a report of CNN. However, they "agreed to meet in New York on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly later this month." Bush also thanked Hu "for the sympathies of the Chinese people on the hardships" endured by Americans from the hurricane, which has triggered death and destruction and created a vast humanitarian crisis.
