Obama Reduces Aussie Trip To 24 Hours
Obama Reduces Aussie Trip To 24 Hours – U.S. president Barack Obama will barely have time to hug a koala, with his Australian trip cut to 24 hours and confined to Canberra.
Despite invitations to visit other states, Air Force One will touch down in Canberra on March 25 and take off a day later for Washington DC, with the President spending all his time in the Australian capital.
The White House yesterday revised plans for the President’s five-day trip to Guam, Indonesia and Australia, with the Australian leg shortened but the schedule described as “a very robust program of events” and with clean energy and trade important items on the agenda.
Mr Obama will address Parliament on March 26.
“First and foremost I’d just say that this trip to Indonesia and Australia is an important opportunity to advance America’s security and economic interests in a very vital part of the world,” Ben Rhodes, the White House’s deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, said.
The President, without his family, departs Washington DC on Air Force One for Guam on Sunday and will spend one day in the Pacific island territory before jetting to Indonesia on Tuesday and then heading south from Bali to Canberra on March 25.
The trip was delayed and cut short after Mr Obama was bogged down in an attempt to push through landmark healthcare legislation in the US.
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