6-09-08, 9:22 am

Paris, Jun 8 (Prensa Latina) Left-wing parties, trade unions and social organizations in France will hold demonstrations across that country to protest the upcoming visit of US President George W. Bush.

Bush will be received by his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday and Saturday, in a working meeting, where they will discuss international and common topics.

A communiqué signed by 30 organizations pointed out this will be the occasion to express the popular rejection of Bush's militaristic policies, just like it is being done in the US and the rest of the world.

The text expressed discomfort with the catastrophes generated by the US government's interventions in other countries.

'The consequences of the war in the Middle East are misery, corruption, terrorism, millions of civil victims and destroyed countries,' the document said.

The signatories of the document asked for the removal of the US military from these countries and for respect for the rights of the peoples.

The organizations also reiterated that France should not join the US. It called on the French government abide by the demand that the French people expressed in the demonstrations against the war in 2003.

'We want to finish with the imperialistic looting, to build a world of peace, solidarity and justice based on the international cooperation,' the official statement concludes.

The letter is signed by the Communist Revolutionary League, the French Communist Party, the Greens, Generation Palestine, movement against Racism and for the Freedom of the Towns and the Women Organization for Equality, among other groups.

Prensa Latina