PM, Obama to meet on the sidelines of ASEAN summit

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US president Barrack Obama are to meet on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit at Bali on November 18, the White House announced on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US president Barrack Obama are to meet on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit at Bali on November 18, the White House announced
Wednesday. President Obama and Prime Minister Singh “will have the ability to discuss regional developments, to discuss Afghanistan, to discuss our deepening economic and commercial ties with India, as well as to discuss the East Asia Summit”, said US deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.

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This will be there first bilateral meeting in almost a year, though they have been at the same forum a number of times – at the recent G-20 and the annual UN General Assembly meeting earlier in August.