President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet at the White House next week for their second face-to-face talks this month, the White House announced on Friday. Bush and Blair have been strong allies on the Iraq war and several other foreign policy challenges, but they have different opinions about a multilateral peacekeeping force for southern Lebanon. Bush has not joined Blair's call for deploying an international security presence along the Lebanese-Israeli border. A White House statement announcing Blair's July 28 visit said the United States has no closer ally than Great Britain, and Bush and Blair would discuss many issues.
