Manmohan Singh likely to meet Obama in London on sidelines of G20 meet

July 14th, 2009 Sharm el-SHEIKH - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his delegation arrived at this Egyptian town Thursday evening, just in time for Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to meet his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir. The Tuesday night meeting will be followed by talks between Manmohan Singh and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday 10.30 a.m.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Prime MInister Manmohan Singh briefly met with US President Barack Obama during the outreach meeting of G8 and G5 leaders at their summit here Thursday. Both leaders shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, Indian officials said here.

July 7th, 2009 ROME - India Tuesday said its ties with the US were "progressing well". "India-US relations are progressing well.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the national budget being presented in parliament Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be heading for the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila Tuesday to take part in discussions with leaders of the world's most powerful and industrialized nations who meet for their annual G-8 summit. The town was devastated by an earthquake just three months ago.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi may meet on the sidelines of G8 Outreach AF-Pak summit, which begins from June 27 in Italy's Trieste city.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in the next few weeks and review Islamabad's actions against terrorism before taking a decision on resuming their "composite dialogue", it was decided during talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday. The two leaders agreed to a meeting between their foreign secretaries to discuss the "primary issue" of terrorism and report to them before the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian town of Sharm-al-Sheikh in mid-July, officials said.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Leaders of India and Pakistan Tuesday asked their foreign secretaries to meet within a month with the sole agenda of reviewing the primary issue of cross- border terrorism that has plagued their ties. This was decided during the 40-minute talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari -- most of it alone -- their first since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.

June 15th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who arrived in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg Monday night, will be meeting four heads of state, including Chinese President Hu Jintao and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, on the sidelines of the two multilateral summits here. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the first BRIC summit of Brazil, Russia, India and China and the summit of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) here.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday US President Barack Obama had told him that he was keen to visit India early with his entire family and build on the improving relationship with this country. In his interaction with women journalists Friday, Manmohan Singh spoke about his meeting with the US president on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in London last week.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets with US President Barack Obama later Thursday in the first engagement between the two leaders. The two are here to attend the G20 summit.

March 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will have his first meeting with US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in London on April 3 and they are expected to discuss the situation in Pakistan.

March 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will have his first meeting with United States (US) President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in London on April 2.

March 26th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet for the first time in London on April 2 on the sidelines of the Group of 20 major economies summit on the global financial crisis. Besides Manmohan Singh, Obama will have bilateral meetings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Queen Elizabeth II, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, the White House announced Wednesday.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is expected to attend the G-20 Summit in London on April 2.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US and India are both hoping that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would meet on the sidelines of next month's summit of Group of 20 leading economies in London. 'We both hope there would be a meeting between the two leaders,' Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said at a press conference here Wednesday after concluding the first high-level interaction with the new Obama administration.