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Manmohan is a friend: Obama
US President Barack Obama counts Prime Minister Manmohan Singh among five world leaders he calls friends. Yashwant Raj reports.
US President Barack Obama counts Prime Minister Manmohan Singh among five world leaders he calls friends. “I mean, I think if you ask them — Angela Merkel or Prime Minister Singh or President Lee or Prime Minister Erdogan or David Cameron would say we have a lot of trust and confidence in the president,” Obama said in an interview to Time magazine.
That was his answer to a question on whether he had forged a relationship with world leaders, as he is often criticised for being cool and aloof.
"The friendships and bonds of trust I’ve been able to forge... is precisely — or a big part of — what has allowed us to execute effective diplomacy,” he said.
Merkel is the German chancellor, Lee Myung-bak the South Korean president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is Turkey’s prime minister and Cameron that of UK.
