PM to meet Obama during East Asia Summit

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet United States President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Indonesia later this year.

"President Obama looks forward to joining Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the East Asia summit in Indonesia," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.

She said the US wanted to work with India and "all of our friends, all our allies" to build the East Asia Summit into Asia Pacific's premier forum for dealing with political and security issues.

"We want to use it, set out priorities and lay out vision for other regional institutions," Clinton said addressing students and opinion makers at the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai.

At the summit discuccions will include maritime security, including developing multilateral levels of cooperation, disaster readiness response and relief and non-proliferation, including working for a denuclearised Korean peninsula.

Clinton said she would be meeting her Indian counterpart SM Krishna later this week at the ASEAN regional forum. "We will be working in conjunction with ASEAN partners and soon inaugurate a trilateral US-India-Japan dialogue.