Obama welcomes France’s Hollande to White House, outlines plan to fight African famine
Source: Washington Post
President Obama welcomed new French President Francois Hollande to the White House on Friday, an initial meeting that comes as world leaders feel a renewed sense of urgency to contain the European debt crisis.
The two leaders were set to meet for about 45 minutes in the Oval Office and deliver brief statements to reporters at the conclusion. Obama is scheduled to head to Camp David on Friday evening to welcome the leaders of eight of the world’s richest countries, including Hollande, for the Group of Eight summit this weekend.
Before meeting with Hollande, Obama outlined new steps in the global effort to reduce hunger, announcing $3 billion in private sector commitments to help improve food security efforts in several African nations.
In a speech at the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security in Washington, Obama said the pledges from 45 multinational corporations and African companies aimed to build on the $22 billion that members of the Group of Eight nations committed at a 2009 summit in L’Aquila, Italy.
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