Obama Urges Coordinated Action Among Allies to Aid Recovery
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President Barack Obama used the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to press leaders, in public and private, to take “coordinated action” to prevent the world’s economy from slipping into a recession.
As a bid by Palestinians for United Nations recognition dominated discussions at the world body in New York, Obama conferred with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on finding a way to sustain a fragile recovery amid the European debt crisis and sluggish U.S. growth.