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Obama To Visit
Colombia In Next Latin American Trip
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Obama To Visit
Colombia In Next Latin American Trip
PORT OF SPAIN - The White House on Saturday
confirmed that U.S. President Barack Obama
will visit Colombia on his next Latin
American trip and he also invited Colombian
President Alvaro Uribe to visit Washington.
"I can confirm that the President did say
that on his next trip to Latin America he'd
like to go to Colombia," White House Deputy
National Security Advisor Denis McDonough
told reporters at a briefing after 34
Western Hemisphere leaders wrapped up the
second day of talks at the Fifth Summit of
the Americas being held here in the
Caribbean twin island state of Trinidad and
Tobago.
"I can also tell you that he did invite
President Uribe to Washington. We don't have
a date for that, but he does look forward to
continuing a conversation and the
relationship that he has built with
President Uribe," he said.
Uribe said earlier that Obama talked about
the plan to visit Colombia during their
conversation at the summit.
The Colombian President said his U.S.
counterpart expressed desire to maintain a
"direct dialogue" based on mutual respect
with Latin America.
Earlier in the day, Colombia's Trade
Minister Luis Guillermo Plata told reporters
here that talks about the pending free trade
agreement with the United States had begun.
Colombia has been lobbying on this trade
pact, but found it stranded in U.S. Congress
because of labor rights issues.
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