Obama, Singh, other world leaders meet ahead of plenary

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Copenhagen, Dec 18 (PTI) Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, US President Barack Obama and 17 other world
leaders met here Friday in a bid to break the deadlock over a
political statement on tackling global warming, ahead of the
high-level segment of the climate conference.

Apart from Singh and Obama, the leaders who attended
the meeting included British Premier Gordon Brown, Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev, German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Brazil's Lula Da Silva,
South Africa's Jacob Zuma, European Commission President Jose
Manuel Barroso, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei.
Singh also had a quick meeting with other
representatives of BASIC countries comprising Brazil, South
Africa, India and China. PTI SKU
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