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Obama, Ban discuss economic crisis and food supply
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-11 09:30

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he had discussed with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the "potential threat" to food supplies if the global economic crisis worsens.


United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) speaks to the media alongside US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 10, 2009. [Agencies]
Obama has spent the first several weeks of his young administration addressing the economic crisis in the United States. He made the comments about food supplies after a meeting with Ban at the White House.

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