White House: No new policies from Camp David meet

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday said that it did not expect any new policy announcements from the weekend Camp David meeting of President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on the financial crisis.

Bush had invited the two leaders to meet with him at the presidential retreat in Maryland to discuss the financial crisis because they were going to be relatively nearby attending a meeting in Canada.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the Camp David meeting was not connected to a Group of Eight leaders summit that is expected to be held this year on the global financial crisis.

"President Sarkozy and European President Barroso are going to be up there in Canada this weekend, and the president invited them down, since they were in the neighborhood," she said.

Sarkozy this week proposed holding the G8 meeting in New York and European leaders have called for a November summit. Perino said dates and venue had not been set and she did not expect any such announcement from the Camp David meeting on Saturday.

"I don't expect dates for meetings to be announced," Perino said.

"I think that it will just be a chance for them to continue the discussions that they've been having since the beginning of this situation, following on the G-7 action plan from last Friday, the G-20 meeting that they had Saturday, and then this statement that they had yesterday," she said.

"So I don't anticipate any new policy announcements coming out of this weekend's conversations," Perino said.

(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria; Editing by Andrea Ricci)