A formal meeting between US President Barack Obama and President Asif Ali Zardari on the sidelines of the annual Nato summit in Chicago is unlikely, a US official said. Tom Donilon, Obama’s national security advisor, said Obama simply will not have time for individual meetings with 61 leaders. He said Obama would see Zardari in group sessions, many of which will enter on the war in neighboring Afghanistan.
Donilon also said the US and Pakistan are making progress on talks to re-open Pakistan’s border to NATO overland supply routes into Afghanistan. On the contrary, President Obama will meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Chicago, as he launches a NATO summit that will mark a “critical milestone” in ending the war, a top official said.
