Laura Bush spoke as US President George W. Bush met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly with critics of the governments of Russia, China, Venezuela, North Korea, Myanmar and other countries.
Among them was a monk from Myanmar who helped lead who helped lead massive anti-government protests in September last year, drawing a government crackdown.
At the event in New York, chess legend turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov gave the US president his book on chess and leadership, entitled "How Life Imitates Chess."
Other attendees included Lodi Gyari, special envoy of the Dalai Lama; Cuban journalist Omar Pernet Hernandez; and Sang Hak Park, president of "Fighters for Free North Korea," according to the White House.
Other guests included Gameela Ismail, wife of jailed Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour; Belarus opposition leader Alexander Kozulin; former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky; and Sierra Leone Foreign Minister Zainab Hawa Bangura.
Radio Caracas Television chief Marcel Granier of Venezuela; Ausama Monajed for the Movement for Justice and Development in Syria; and founder of the outlawed China Democracy Party Xu Wenli also were on hand.
Among them was a monk from Myanmar who helped lead who helped lead massive anti-government protests in September last year, drawing a government crackdown.
At the event in New York, chess legend turned Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov gave the US president his book on chess and leadership, entitled "How Life Imitates Chess."
Other attendees included Lodi Gyari, special envoy of the Dalai Lama; Cuban journalist Omar Pernet Hernandez; and Sang Hak Park, president of "Fighters for Free North Korea," according to the White House.
Other guests included Gameela Ismail, wife of jailed Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour; Belarus opposition leader Alexander Kozulin; former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky; and Sierra Leone Foreign Minister Zainab Hawa Bangura.
Radio Caracas Television chief Marcel Granier of Venezuela; Ausama Monajed for the Movement for Justice and Development in Syria; and founder of the outlawed China Democracy Party Xu Wenli also were on hand.
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