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» Tuesday, November 28, 2006

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Asked why the Prime Minister had not been invited to President Chirac’s birthday party tomorrow, and who else had been invited, and when did President Putin arrive, the PMOS said that we were not in Riga tomorrow evening. With regards to other invitees, that was a matter for President Chirac – surprise, surprise, people did not get to choose. The PMOS said that his understanding was that President Putin would arrive after we had left Riga, and therefore, all the speculation about whether we would meet him or not was irrelevant, as we would be elsewhere by then.

Asked if the Prime Minister was upset that he had not been invited, the PMOS replied that the Prime Minister was not upset in any way. Geography was geography.

Asked by the Evening Standard if the Prime Minister had sent President Chirac a birthday card, the PMOS said that he was not aware if the Prime Minister had sent a card. In any case, birthdays were a private matter, and as people got older, they became even more private!

Asked if the Prime Minister received an invitation to the party, the PMOS said that he was not aware of one, but given that we were not going to be in the same country at the time, that might have had something to do with it. However, the PMOS said that he did not speak for the French.

Asked for further information about the birthday party, the PMOS said that there had been questions about President Chirac holding a dinner tomorrow evening in Riga to celebrate for his 76th birthday. We would not be there as we would have left Riga by the time the dinner party would have taken place.

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