BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: But Kofi Annan making quite clear we need a partner, he says, a partner is a stable Afghan government. To the White House and Kelly Wallace, listening along as well. Kelly, I guess no surprise on this front. Clearly the U.N. has it's work cut out for it.</s>KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Exactly Bill, and as you saw there, no questions to President Bush and the U.N. secretary general, although Mr. Bush may take questions a short time from now when he meets with President Aznar of Spain. And as you can see behind me, the president and members of his delegation arriving,right now, at the White House, walking on over from Blair House for the meeting with Mr. Bush. A big focus of this meeting will certainly be on terrorism. In particular, as you know, Spain has arrested a number of individuals believed to be connected to the hijackers and to the September 11th attacks, but Spain has so far refused to extradite the individuals to the United States, in part out of concern about President Bush's call for the possibility of using a military tribunal. The Spanish leader very much wanting any individuals that would be sent to the United States to be tried in a civilian court. Spain also very critical of the death penalty, so expect the two leaders to talk about this. But the sense we're getting from administration officials is number one, they believe Spain has been very cooperative in this war against terrorism, and number two, that the administration has not requested these individuals be extradited to the U.S. just yet. They want to see exactly what information the Spanish have about these individuals, but both sides -- countries are saying that they hopefully can work this out.</s>HEMMER: All right, Kelly, Great. Kelly Wallace at the White House. Thanks again. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Bush to Meet With President Aznar of Spain