Obama will not attend Washington financial summit

Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:24pm EST
 
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama will not attend the global financial summit in Washington on November 14-15, an aide said on Monday.

The Bush administration has called the summit of the countries representing the world's leading economies to begin thrashing out a strategy for dealing with the global financial crisis. Obama takes over as U.S. president on January 20.

 
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