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Obama to travel to China for G20 Summit, meeting Modi on cards
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will travel to China next month to attend the G20 Summit which will also be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will travel to China next month to attend the G20 Summit which will also be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
This would be Obama’s 11th trip to Asia after he became president in January 2009.
Two of these trips have been to India in November 2010 and January 2015.
“This trip will highlight the President’s ongoing commitment to the G20 as the premier forum for international economic cooperation as well as the US Rebalance to Asia and the Pacific,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement.
On the sidelines of the G20 Summit, Obama is likely to meet Modi, which would be the eighth meeting between the two leaders after Modi became prime minister in May 2014.
While there has been no official word from the White House on this, Modi during his White House joint media interaction in early June had said the two leaders would be meeting in China in September.
Earnest said, in China, Obama will participate in his final G20 Leaders’ Summit, where he will emphasise the need to continue building on the progress made since 2009 in advancing balanced global economic growth. He will also hold meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hangzhou.
