US President Barack Obama will meet Southeast Asian leaders on September 24 in New York and seek broader cooperation on issues including regional security, the White House said Friday.
The summit, whose date was earlier confirmed to AFP by a senior official, will mark Obama\'s latest attempt to reinvigorate US policy towards the dynamic region that he said was neglected by ex-president George W. Bush\'s team.
The White House said that Obama would meet with the Southeast Asian leaders in New York on September 24, the time of the annual United Nations General Assembly.
The New York meeting will follow the inaugural summit that Obama held last year in Singapore with his counterparts from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
In Singapore, "the president and the ASEAN leaders pledged to deepen cooperation in a number of areas of common concern including trade and investment, regional security, disaster management, food and energy security, and climate change," a White House statement said.
"The president looks forward to working with the leaders to assess the progress on these issues, identify future efforts to strengthen US-ASEAN relations, and discuss multilateral approaches for greater regional cooperation," it said.
Obama-ASEAN summit on September 24 in New York
US President Barack Obama will meet Southeast Asian leaders on September 24 in New York and seek broader cooperation on issues, the White House said Friday.
Source: AFP
