(AhlulBayt News Agency) - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in New York on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss a recently agreed deal on U.S. military aid, the White House said.
"The meeting also will be an opportunity to discuss the need for genuine advancement of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the face of deeply troubling trends on the ground," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Obama will also meet on Monday with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to discuss ways to deepen the U.S.-China relationship and to address "provocations" by North Korea, he said.
Relations between Obama and Bibi have been in tatters for a while in the wake of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, including the US, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The meeting will be held on the sidelines of lame duck Obama’s final attendance at the UN General Assembly before he leaves the White House at the end of the year.
It will follow the US pledge to pay Israel $38 billion in military and security aid.
He will hold meetings with other world leaders, including Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
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source : Reuters
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19 September 2016
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U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday in New York on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss a recently agreed deal on U.S. military aid, the White House said.