Barack Obama: Press Release: President-Elect Obama Calls Foreign Leaders Today

John T. Woolley & Gerhard Peters • Santa Barbara, California

• Barack Obama

Press Release: President-Elect Obama Calls Foreign Leaders Today

November 18, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama today returned phone calls to five world leaders and expressed his appreciation for their congratulations on his election. President-elect Obama spoke with:

President Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina
President Bachelet of Chile
Taoiseach Cowen of Ireland
President Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan
President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority

Citation: Barack Obama: "Press Release: President-Elect Obama Calls Foreign Leaders Today", November 18, 2008. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=84872.