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PRESIDENT LEAVES KUALA LUMPUR FOR HOKKAIDO TUESDAY NOON
Kuala Lumpur, July 8 (ANTARA)- President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his entourage which included First Lady Ani Yudhoyono left Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at noon local time on Tuesday for Hokkaido, Japan to attand a G-8 Summut.
Before departing to Japan, the president attended the opening of the D-8 Summit at the Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
In the event, President Yudhoyono handed over the chairmanship of D-8 he had held for two years to Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
The president and his entourage are expected to arrive in Hokkaido at about 20:00 local time or 18:00 Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB) and would proceed to a hotel for a rest.
It was reported earlier, Yudhoyono would be a lead speaker on food security at the G8+8 Summit in Toyako, capital of Hokkaido prefecture.
"The president will be a lead speaker to talk about food security among the state leaders attending the summit later," presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said recently.
According to Djalal , President Yudhoyono had previously written a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda as G8 Summit Chairman calling on the participants of the G-8 Summit to also discuss the issue of food security.
"It (the letter) was not about climate change and other issues, but about food security. Thank God, the president's proposal was accepted," he said.
Djalal further stressed that at the G-8 Summit, the president would appeal to key states to bring forward the Bali Road Map in order to arrive at a global solution for the post-Rome FAO Sumit food crisis.
The president would be in Japan July 8-10 to attend G8 Outreach Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan.
Before departing to Japan, the president attended the opening of the D-8 Summit at the Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
In the event, President Yudhoyono handed over the chairmanship of D-8 he had held for two years to Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
The president and his entourage are expected to arrive in Hokkaido at about 20:00 local time or 18:00 Western Indonesian Standard Time (WIB) and would proceed to a hotel for a rest.
It was reported earlier, Yudhoyono would be a lead speaker on food security at the G8+8 Summit in Toyako, capital of Hokkaido prefecture.
"The president will be a lead speaker to talk about food security among the state leaders attending the summit later," presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said recently.
According to Djalal , President Yudhoyono had previously written a letter to Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda as G8 Summit Chairman calling on the participants of the G-8 Summit to also discuss the issue of food security.
"It (the letter) was not about climate change and other issues, but about food security. Thank God, the president's proposal was accepted," he said.
Djalal further stressed that at the G-8 Summit, the president would appeal to key states to bring forward the Bali Road Map in order to arrive at a global solution for the post-Rome FAO Sumit food crisis.
The president would be in Japan July 8-10 to attend G8 Outreach Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan.
