The leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will meet in Rancho Mirage, California.
"President Obama invited the ASEAN leaders to the United States during his recent trip to Asia and he is pleased the leaders accepted his invitation," Myles Caggins, spokesman of the National Security Council, White House said yesterday.
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