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Obama not to attend G20 summit

November 09, 2008 00:00:00


WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (AFP): US President-elect Barack Obama will not be attending a summit of world leaders for economic crisis talks in Washington next week, his spokeswoman said yesterday.
Obama's transition spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter confirmed the president-elect would not be attending the upcoming summit.
"As he said himself, there is only one president at a time," she told reporters after Obama's first post-election news conference in Chicago.
Earlier the White House confirmed it did not expect Obama to take a seat at the talks on November 15.
"We are in communication and coordination with them. I don't know whether someone will actually be in the building. I don't expect in the room," spokesman Tony Fratto said of Obama's economic team.

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