Toronto (News Today) - President Barack Obama insists he’ll make it to Indonesia yet. He has twice postponed presidential trips to the country where he lived with his mother and Indonesian stepfather between the ages of 6 and 10.
Obama held a meeting Sunday at the global economic summit in Toronto with Indonesia’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. And while Obama didn’t announce a new date for the trip, he did say, “I am confident we are going to get there.”
Obama had trips set to Indonesia and Australia this year but pressing domestic matters — the health care debate in Congress and later the Gulf of Mexico oil spill — led to the postponements. Perhaps the third time will be the charm for U.S. President Barack Obama’s repeatedly postponed visit to Indonesia, where he spent several years as a child.
Obama said on Sunday that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had invited him again to visit the country. “I’m confident that we are going to get there” this time, said Obama, who lived in the country with his mother and stepfather between 1967 and 1971.
Obama made use of his Indonesian language skills at the meeting, at which the two leaders said they agreed to cooperate on climate change and education. Obama greeted the Indonesian media in their own language.
“My accent is perfect, it’s just my vocabulary is a six-year-old’s,” the president told Yudhoyono.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Obama Confident He'll Make Trip back to Indonesia
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