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President Obama will travel to Honolulu this week.

He will deliver remarks to leaders from the Pacific Island Conference of Leaders and the IUCN World Conservation Congress at the East-West Center’s Hawaii Imin International Conference Center sometime Wednesday. 

“This is the first time that the United States has hosted the World Conservation Congress — an important opportunity to bring together not just Pacific island leaders who have been a motivating factor around the urgency of action against climate change, but also conservation advocates from around the world,” Josh Earnest, the president’s press secretary, said at the White House Monday.

The president will remain on Oahu overnight.

President Barack Obama waves exiting Air Force 1 as the first family arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for their annual family vacation on Oahu. 19 dec 2014. Cory Lum/Civil Beat
President Barack Obama waves exiting Air Force One as the first family arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for their annual family vacation in December 2014. Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Then, on Thursday, Obama will depart for Midway Atoll and return to Honolulu later in the evening to remain here another night. 

On Friday, the president will depart Honolulu for China for his final G-20 Leaders’ Summit, and be the first U.S. president to visit Laos, where he will participate in the U.S.-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit.

Earnest, the press secretary, said climate change, the global economy and the Asia Pacific region would be the main focus of the president’s travels.

Sorry, can’t share any more details. The White House would have me arrested if I did.

But it’s a pretty good bet there’ll be no golf or shave ice on this trip.

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