Obama to pitch economic program at Group of 20 summit

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Obama to pitch economic program at Group of 20 summit

By David Nakamura, Published: October 30

President Obama, who has struggled to advance his vision for economic renewal at home, will take his pitch overseas this week to an audience of world leaders who could prove equally skeptical of his message at a time of global anxiety.

“It’s very hard for us to preach the economic gospel to Europe when they watched our debt-ceiling debate here and our [credit-rating] downgrade,” said Heather Conley, director of European programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Obama is scheduled to depart Washington late Wednesday for a two-day trip to Cannes, France, where the heads of the world’s 20 largest economies will gather for the Group of 20 summit. Organizers said the meetings will focus on how to contain Europe’s debt crisis while also trying to forge consensus on a path to stimulating worldwide economic growth, even as many countries, including the United States, wrestle with painful budget cuts.

The trip, the first for Obama outside the United States since he attended a smaller summit in France in the spring, could provide a crucial test of whether his political problems at home have compromised his influence abroad.

In the five months since the last global summit, Obama has focused on the domestic economy, fighting with Congress over ways to reduce the deficit and crisscrossing the nation to promote his $447 billion American Jobs Act, which remains stalled on Capitol Hill.

At a series of bilateral meetings in France, the president is expected to lay out his growth proposals: a mix of immediate spending to create jobs and longer-term fiscal discipline to reduce U.S. deficits.

But Obama faces a tough challenge after pointedly criticizing Europe’s handling of its debt crisis. During a town-hall-style event in Mountain View, Calif., last month, Obama said the Europeans were “scaring the world.”

European leaders struck back, telling administration officials to butt out and focus on their own fiscal problems. The Austrian and German finance ministers chided U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner in September for intervening in Europe’s affairs, with Germany’s Wolfgang Schauble dismissing as “stupid” a bailout idea advanced by Geithner. White House officials counter that the bailout plan adopted last week by European nations to help cash-strapped countries such as Italy and Spain borrow at least a trillion dollars is similar to an idea that Geithner proposed.

“The president said Europe was scaring the world; Europe thinks the U.S. is scaring the world,” said CSIS’s Conley, who was deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs from 2001 to 2005. “We’re both finger-pointing at one another. I do not think the president has lost legitimacy, but it’s just very hard for us to tell other countries what to do.”

On his national jobs tour, Obama has consistently cited Europe’s economic malaise, along with the Japanese earthquake and the uprisings in the Middle East, as factors that have slowed the U.S. economic recovery. The president has called on Europe to take bold action to resolve its debt crisis.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-pitch-economic-program-at-group-of-20-summit/2011/10/28/gIQAvG2kWM_story.html?wprss=rss_politics

 

6:45 p.m.    Obama departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
7 p.m.    Obama departs Joint Base Andrews en route Nice, France

if Air Soetoro One takes off from Andrews AFB at 7.00 PM local time (1.00 AM CET) I wonder what time they will land in Nice.
I would not mind hopping to the Nice airport Spotters corner and see the aircraft as I am not too far from there. No question of watching from the Sea. Anyone attempting to sail near the airport runways will probably get a missile in the hull.

[shipgeek]

G-20 in Cannes - which hotels will house who

Majestic Barrière

Sarkozy
Merkel
Medvedev
Kristina Kirchner
Yoshihiko Noda
van Rompuy
Barroso


Marriott


David Cameron
Julia Gillard
Lee MyungBak (Corea)
Yudhiono (Indonesia)
Jacob Zuma
Recep Erdogan
Ban Ki Moon


Carlton


Barry Soetoro
Silvio Berlusconi
Zapatero
Dilma Rousseff
King Abdallah of Saudi A.
Manmohan Singh (India)
Felipe Calderon (Mexico)
Stephen Harper (Canada)


Gray d'Albion

Hu Jintao (China)

Martinez
no heads of state - organisation only

I wonder who will foot the bill?

G-20 will be held at Palais des Festivals - same place where they have the famous Cannes Film Festival.

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Attendance

The prospective participants at the Cannes summit include leaders and representatives of the core members of the G-20 major economies, which comprises 19 countries and the European Union which is represented by its two governing bodies, the European Council and the European Commission.[9] Representatives of other nations and regional organizations are expected to take part in the summit.
G-20 members

Host nation and leader are indicated in bold text.

Member   Represented by   Title

   Argentina[10]   Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   Australia[11]   Julia Gillard
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   Brazil[12]   Dilma Rousseff
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   Canada[13]   Stephen Harper
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   China[14]   Hu Jintao
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   France[15]   Nicolas Sarkozy
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   Germany[16]   Angela Merkel
-- projected leader of delegation   Chancellor

   India[17]   Manmohan Singh
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   Indonesia[18]   Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   Italy[19]   Silvio Berlusconi
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   Japan[20]   Yoshihiko Noda
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   Mexico[21]   Felipe Calderón
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   Russia[22]   Dmitry Medvedev
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   Saudi Arabia[23]   Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz
-- projected leader of delegation   King

   South Africa[24]   Jacob Zuma
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   South Korea[25]   Lee Myung-bak
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   Turkey[26]   Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   United Kingdom[27]   David Cameron
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   United States[28]   Barack Obama
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   European Commission[29]   Jose Manuel Barroso
-- projected co-leader of delegation   President

European Council[29]   Herman Van Rompuy
-- projected co-leader of delegation   President

Invited states

State   Represented by   Title

   Ethiopia[30]   Meles Zenawi
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   Singapore[30]   Lee Hsien Loong
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   Spain[30]   José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
-- projected leader of delegation   Prime Minister

   United Arab Emirates[30]   Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
-- projected leader of delegation   President

   Equatorial Guinea[30]   Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
-- projected leader of delegation   President

International organisations

Organisation   Represented by   Title

African Union[30]   Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
-- projected leader of delegation   Chairman

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision[31]   Nout Wellink
-- projected leader of delegation   Chairman

CCASG[30]   Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
-- projected leader of delegation   

European Central Bank[31]   TBD
-- possibly Mario Draghi    President

Financial Stability Board[31]   Mario Draghi
-- projected leader of delegation   Chairman

Global Governance Group (3-G)[32]   Sellapan Ramanathan
-- projected leader of delegation   

International Labour Organization[33]   Juan Somavía
-- projected leader of delegation   Director-General

International Monetary Fund[31]   Christine Lagarde[34] --
-- projected leader of delegation   Managing Director

NEPAD[30]   Armando Guebuza[35]
-- projected leader of delegation   

OECD[33]   José Ángel Gurría
-- projected leader of delegation   Secretary-General

   United Nations[33]   Ban Ki-moon
-- projected leader of delegation   Secretary General

World Bank Group[31]   Robert Zoellick
-- projected leader of delegation   President

World Trade Organization[33]   Pascal Lamy
-- projected leader of delegation   Director-General

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_G-20_Cannes_summit

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This is going to be very interesting, as all eyes are on Greece...who looks like it may very well default on its debts, which will have severe reprecussions.

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From a friend who is an exec at NCE airport. He has all the lists.

The US will be the largest delegation with 800 persons. They will have 4 aircrafts among which Air Force One - one of the a/c will remain in an undisclosed location.

Air Force One will stay in NCE 24 hours. Then off. Some say the wife will be on the trip.
Landing estimated at 8.00 AM local - East/West. Rain expected later in the day.

Many of the Presidents have arrived today. Medvedev came with two aircrafts an Ilyushin and a Tupolev. The Mrs Presidents from Brazil and Argentina flew on Embraers.

Sarkozy will fly on a Airbus A310 (government aircraft) and Merkel on a Airbus A340 from the German Air Force. The Korean has a Boeing 747. The Saudi King and the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi are flying on small Airbus aircrafts. Berlusconi will also have a modest plane.

I may go look at some of the landings early in the morning. I know some good spots. Should not be too much of a problem. Will bring a radio scanner just in case. Call sign for Air Force One is Air Force One when the POTUS is in. Sometimes can be SAMxxx but not this time I think.

I just hope the winds won't change direction or it will mess up my spotting session.
Will post pix on the thread in case I get anything worthy of interest. Security is ultra-tight. They are everywhere.