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President
Obama at the London G20 Summit
US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit. The G20 world leaders
met on April 2, 2009 at the ExCel Centre in London.
The G20 summit will focus on financial stability, growth, and jobs. |
April
2, 2009
President Barack Obama
arrives at the Excel Centre in London and is greeted by the UK PM Gordon
Brown the host of the
2009 London G20 Summit on April 2, 2009. The focus of the summit is the
international financial crisis including changes to
global banking, stock market controls, and job creation. |
April
2, 2009
President Barack Obama
meets with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak
at the Excel Centre in London. Security concerns,
including North Korea's scheduled satellite missile launch, were
discussed along with the global economy. President Obama said
North Korea was being provocative and told the North Koreans to
reconsider their missile launch. |
April
2, 2009
President Barack Obama
and the G20 leaders meet for a group photo on the stage at the Excel
Centre in London. President
Obama escorted German chancellor Angela Merkel from the stage after
making gestures during the group photo with Russian
President Medvedev and Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi. |
April
2, 2009
President Barack Obama
and the G20 leaders return to the stage for a second G20 group photo
after Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper was missing from the first group photo.
President Obama walked on the stage and walked directly to
PM Harper to tease him about his absence from the original group photo.
The two G20 group photos above show the missing
Canadian leader on the left photo and in his spot on the right group
photo. |
April
2, 2009
First Lady Michelle
Obama joins Sarah Brown, the wife of UK PM Brown, and other spouses of
G20 leaders at a special
performance of Giselle at the Royal Opera House in London on April 2,
2009. |
April
2, 2009
President Barack Obama
and US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner are seated next to G20 host UK
Prime Minister Gordon
Brown at the Plenary session of the G20 Summit at the Excel Centre in
the London dockyards area. The key agreements at
the G20 Summit include stricter banking controls, and $1.1 trillion
dollars in funding for countries in need of fiscal assistance.
Leaders of the G20 countries also agreed to tighten secret offshore
banking practices. |
April
2, 2009
President Barack Obama
meets with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah at the Excel Centre in London on
April 2, 2009. Saudi Arabia
is a key strategic military ally of the United States in the Middle East
region. |
April
2, 2009
President Barack Obama
meets with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the G20 Summit in
the Excel Centre in London.
Answering a question from an Indian reporter t a G20 press conference
later in the day President Obama referred to PM Singh
as a moral and decent man with a history of bringing positive change and
growth to India's burgeoning economy. |
April
2, 2009
First Lady Michelle
Obama visits students at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Language School
in London on April 2, 2009.
Michelle Obama watched a dance performance and then spoke to the
students. The First Lady was teary-eyed as she talked
about her rise to First Lady and the potential that lies within each of
the students at the school. |
April
2, 2009
At the end of the day,
President Barack Obama holds a G20 press conference on the main stage of
the Excel Centre in
London, UK. President Obama made positive remarks on the outcome of the
G20 Summit. President Obama took a few
questions from the large pool of international reporters who attended
Obama's G20 press conference. Obama characterized
the results of the meeting for the US as OK when asked by a reporter
from India. President Obama said he was battling a
cold and was seen coughing, sneezing, and drinking plenty of bottled
water while at the G20 podium. |
Watch
the White House YouTube of President Obama's G20 Press Conference in
London on 4/2/09 |
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PRESIDENT OBAMA IN EUROPE - APRIL 1-7, 2009 - DAILY EUROPEAN TIMELINE |
April
1/09 - G20
London, UK |
April
2/09 - G20
London, UK |
April
3/09 - NATO
Strasbourg, France |
April
3/09 - NATO
Baden-Baden, GER |
US
PRESIDENT OBAMA
APRIL VISIT TO EUROPE
April 1-April 7, 2009
Daily Timeline/Obama
in Europe
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Wednesday, April 1,
2009
London, UK
Thursday,
April 2, 2009
London, UK
Friday,
April 3, 2009
Strasbourg, France
Friday,
April 3, 2009
Baden-Baden,
Germany
Saturday,
April 4, 2009
Kehl, GER & Strasbourg,
FR
Sunday,
April 5, 2009
Prague, Czech
Republic
Monday,
April 6, 2009
Ankara, Turkey
Tuesday,
April 7, 2009
Istanbul,
Turkey
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April
4/09 - NATO
Kehl/Strasbourg |
April
5/09 - EU
Prague, Czech Rep |
April
6/09
Ankara, Turkey |
April
7/09
Istanbul, Turkey |
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