President Joe Biden gave the impression of confusing Cambodia and Colombia for the time being in as many days as he made his comments at this year’s ASEAN summit.
“I want to thank the prime minister for Colombia’s leadership as ASEAN chair,” Biden told Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday night local time.
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Biden, who is in Phnom Penh for the Southeast Asian leaders’ meeting, spoke personally with Hun Sen on Saturday afternoon, prompting the prime minister to wait “several minutes” just for the photo shoot, according to reports from the group. Once there, Biden shouted out questions about China as photographers caught them shaking hands. Before their discussion, Biden told reporters that the expanded organization would deal with energy, national security and “the return of democracy to Myanmar. “
Biden also Cambodia and Colombia as he left the White House on Friday for the COP27 weather convention in Egypt.
“Anyway, guys, I’m going to. . . first of all, I will move to Cairo for the environmental effort, and then I will go to Colombia and then. . . I mean, Cambodia,” he told reporters on the South Lawn. “I thought, ‘I’m thinking about the Western Hemisphere. And then in Indonesia. So there will be a lot to say. “
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Biden is expected to attend the East Asia summit gala on Saturday before departing for Indonesia for next week’s G-20 leaders’ summit.