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At Asean summit in Cambodia, Biden thanks host PM of ‘Colombia .
By India Today Web Desk: In a fresh goof up, US President Joe Biden referred to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit host Cambodia as Colombia on Saturday.
“Now that we’re back together here in Cambodia, I look forward to building even stronger progress than we’ve already made, and I want to thank the Prime Minister of Colombia for his leadership as Asean chair and for hosting all of us,” Biden said while meeting his counterparts at Asean in Phnom Penh.
Biden called the Prime Minister of Cambodia “the Prime Minister for Colombia"
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He was referring to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is currently chairing the 10-member regional bloc.This comes weeks after Biden was mocked for slipping up on Rishi Sunak’s name in a speech praising the new Prime Minister’s appointment as a ‘groundbreaking moment’.
Biden said, “Just today, we’ve got news that ‘Rashid Sanook’ is now the prime minister.He was speaking during a ceremony at the White House marking the Hindu festival of Diwali.
Biden, who is on a whirlwind trip with stops at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, Asean in Phnom Penh, and the G20 summit in Indonesia, made a similar slip-up while speaking to reporters at the White House recently.
The Democratic president, who turns 80 on November 20 this week, said it was still his intention to seek re-election, even though two-thirds of voters in exit polls said they preferred he not seek a second term.
Biden’s verbal stumbles from time to time and tendency to meander off script during live appearances have been seized on by his Republican critics as proof he’s too old for the job. Supporters call that ageism and say the president, who overcame a childhood stutter, has been ad-libbing in public speeches for decades.
