German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has joined President George W Bush at a news conference on Monday after his arrival in Washington on Sunday evening.

Schroeder is expected to raise the issue of the U.N Security Council reform, and to debate Iran's nuclear program, as well, but also talk about Germany's program on police training outside Iraq.

Germany has been working together with France and Britain on a special program offering Iran several concessions if the country halted its uranium-enrichment activities.

The dew debate on this issue between Schroeder and Bush comes a day after the newly elected ultra-conservative Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has underlined his intention to support Iran's need of "peaceful nuclear technology for energy, medical and agricultural purposes" and therefore vowed to restart somehow the uranium-enrichment activities for civilian purposes.

Schroeder has been known for his opposition to the Iraqi war led by the U.S, but the February meeting with President Bush seems to have eased the tensions.

The German Chancellor was set to meet the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and take a speech in front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Some analysts thought that Schroeder will also lobby for Germany's permanent place in the U.N Security Council, which will be a great achievement for his Democratic party, in the upcoming earlier elections in September, as it still lack 17% behind the conservative opposition. Schroeder would try to do everything in his power to win back his voters, one might say.

"Schroeder may have some slight incentive to bolster his image as a foreign policy leader" according to Stephen Szabo, an expert on U.S.-German relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, quoted bu the Washington Post. Szabo also added that, in his opinion, "the Bush administration, like everybody else, has written Schroeder off as basically a lame duck whose time is very limited now."