WASHINGTON, March 31 – RIA Novosti, Maria Tabak, Denis Voroshilov. United States President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will travel Tuesday first European tour. They have to be a week to visit five countries and to overcome more than 19 thousand kilometers.
During the presidential couple during the entire tour will be followed by a few dozen American journalists on a business trip to highlight the three major tours come from the central TV channels. For journalists the U.S. government has allocated a separate plane.
Some experts note that the trip first black American President, has attracted an unprecedented amount of press, becoming like touring rock stars. However, observers cautiously assess the possible outcomes of the tour Obama, noting that the expectations of the trip is too high.
U.S. President will leave Washington at 8 am (16.00 Moscow time) and arrive in London at 19.45 (22.45 Moscow time). Wednesday and Thursday with U.S. President will be very busy. He will attend a summit of the big twenty. The main topic of negotiations will be a way out of the global financial crisis.
The President at the summit with two main objectives: to make sure that there were common actions aimed at the resumption of economic growth, and that we implement our plan to reform the system of economic regulation – so that such crises do not occur in the future. Secondly, the United States, it is important to be sure that both of these appeals will be heard during the summit, – said in advance of the meeting, twenty the official representative White House, Robert Gibbs.
According to him, Obama and America at the summit are going to listen and lead.
In addition to participating in the meetings of the summit, Obama will hold in London on a series of bilateral negotiations. On Wednesday, April 1, Obame pending negotiations with the president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. This will be the first full-time meeting of the heads of two states. Although the United States authorities have repeatedly expressed the desire to restart with Russia, they start from scratch, according to many American and Russian political analysts, as well as Assistant to the President of Russian Federation Sergei Prihodko to do so will not be easy – too big differences were in the United States and Russia in the past.
There is disagreement among the presidents, and now – Obama has recently rejected Medvedev proposed the idea of creating a single world currency. Among the possible topics of talks Obama and Medvedev, in particular, are the situation in Afghanistan, the issue of missile defense, finkrizis and security. They will take a statement on bilateral relations and issues of START.
however, Moscow made it clear that the first meeting between Medvedev and Obama would be pristrelochny nature. The two Presidents, according to Prikhodko, to be personally acquainted, to synchronize watches as well as inventory all aspects of Russian-American agenda, giving the start of a new phase in relations between two countries. read more »