President Barack Obama met with France’s new leader François Hollande at the White House Friday, one day before the two head to this weekend’s Group of Eight summit. The newly-elected French president held firm to his campaign pledge to immediately withdraw his country's troops from Afghanistan despite objections from the U.S. and the U.K. At a press conference after the meeting, however, Hollande assured Obama that France would offer "support in another form."
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