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Obama to meet Mexican president before inauguration
Jan 8, 2009, 22:09 GMT
Washington - US president-elect Barack Obama will meet Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday as part of a long- standing tradition between the two countries.
Obama will sit down with Calderon at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, the Obama transition team said.
It is customary for the president-elect of the United States to meet his soon-to-be counterpart from Mexico prior to the January 20 inauguration, the statement said.
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