WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama will participate in the East Asia Summit (East Asia Summit / EAS) consisting of 18 countries in Bali later this year, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday (07/12/2011).U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will come to Indonesia later this month in preparation for "the participation of President Obama for the first time in the EAS in November," said State Department spokesman, Victoria Nuland. A local official in Bali, last May, said the island had been ready to welcome Obama on November 19.
A spokesman for the provincial government of Bali, Ketut Teneng, said Scot Marciel U.S. ambassador has told local governments about the desirability of Obama was to attend a regional strategic dialogue, which also includes China and Russia. Plan the visit will be Obama's second official visit to Indonesia, where he has spent most of his childhood in the late 1960s. Obama's first visit as U.S. president in November.
Indonesia will host the meeting in his capacity as regional leaders of ASEAN, a group of 10 countries that form the broader EAS. The U.S. and Russia into the EAS is composed of 18 countries last year, but Obama did not attend the meeting of the group's leaders in Hanoi in October. Obama just send Hillary Clinton to replace him.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is also expected to attend the summit.
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