PARIS, June 5 (Xinhuanet) -- US President George W. Bush in Paris Saturday from Rome for a two-day visit on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy on June 6.

    Bush will hold talks with French President Jacques Chirac at the Elysee presidential palace in the French capital late Saturday.The talks will be followed by a joint press conference and a working dinner.

    All of France is on red alert -- the country's second-highest terror threat level -- throughout the weekend.

    Bush will be also "greeted" by thousands of anti-war demonstrators, who are set to march in the French capital on Saturday, but far from Bush's sight.

    Bush will try to win Chirac's support for a UN resolution on the June 30 power transfer in Iraq during his two-day visit in France.

    French-American ties have been chilled for more than a year after Chirac refused to back the US-led war in Iraq.

    "I have never been angry with the French. France has long been an ally," Bush said early this week in an interview with the French magazine Paris Match.

    Chirac said for his part he had never been "angry" with Bush despite their "divergence of views" over Iraq.

    Bush will attend the commemoration activities grouping 17 headsof state or government on Sunday in Normandy, where he is expectedto give a speech. Enditem