FACTBOX: Who will Obama meet with on his foreign trip?

Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:19pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will travel within days to Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and Britain.

Previewing the trip on Friday, the Obama campaign released few specifics of the itinerary but said the Illinois senator would meet with the following people:

* British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

* German Chancellor Angela Merkel

* French President Nicolas Sarkozy

* King Abdullah of Jordan

* Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

* Israeli President Shimon Peres

* Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak

* Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu

* Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni

* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

* Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad

* British opposition leader David Cameron

* German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

(Reporting by Caren Bohan; Editing by Peter Cooney)

 

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