Beltway Blurbs: Week of September 21
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Monday - President Obama will travel to Troy, NY, Monday morning and tour a technology classroom at Hudson Valley Community College with the Vice President’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden. Obama will then give a speech at the community college on the economy. Afterward, he will travel to New York City and tape an interview on the “Late Show with David Letterman” in the afternoon.
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Tuesday - Today, Obama will deliver a speech at the United Nations Climate Change Summit, which will take place at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The president will then host a working lunch with African leaders and in the afternoon he’ll participate in a bilateral meeting with China’s president, before delivering another speech at the Clinton Global Initiative. Obama will attend U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s Climate Change Summit dinner in the evening.
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Wednesday - In the morning, Obama will attend a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, and later he’ll deliver a speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Later, he’ll go to the U.N. Secretary General’s (Ban Ki-Moon is pictured) lunch for Heads of State and Government before visiting the memorial for U.N. staff killed in Iraq. A busy day will continue for Obama as he meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the afternoon. The Obamas will host a reception for leaders in the evening.
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Thursday - Today, Obama will chair a meeting with the U.N. Security Council Heads of State, where the topic will be nuclear nonproliferation. In the afternoon, the president will serve as one of the hosts of the Friends of a Democratic Pakistan meeting. Then, after the meeting, Obama will leave New York for Pittsburgh to host the G-20 Summit. In the evening, he’ll host a working dinner with the G-20 world leaders.
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Friday - The president will host the day’s first G-20 plenary session in the morning, before hosting a lunch with the leaders. A second G-20 plenary session, also hosted by Obama, will take place in the afternoon. He’ll hold a press conference after that session. The president will return to D.C. in the evening.
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