Will SBY Meet Obama at G20?

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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 | 11:44 PM

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has no schedule to meet US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in the US this week, presidential spokesman Dino Patty Djalal said here on Tuesday.

"There is no schedule for a bilateral meeting between President Yudhoyono and President Obama," he told ANTARA.

He said President Yudhoyono was only scheduled to meet Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the sidelines of the summit.

Regarding the scheduled meetings Dino said the meeting with the Japanese prime minister would be the first and so it was not known for sure what the two leaders would discuss.

"In a meeting with Rudd, President Yudhoyono meanwhile would discuss environmental and forestry issues," he said.

President Yudhoyono is scheduled to leave for the US on Wednesday to attend the G-20 summit to be held from September 24 to 26 in Pittsburgh. He is scheduled to return home on September 29.