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The Democrat presidential candidate is on the final part of the European leg of his world tour.

Mr Obama will also meet Conservative leader David Cameron and former prime minister Tony Blair while in the UK.

He has already visited Germany, where he gave a keynote foreign policy speech in Berlin, and France where he met President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Mr Obama was greeted in the UK by the American ambassador and his wife, Robert and Maria Tuttle, before being taken to a central London hotel.

Presidential election

While in Paris, Mr Obama said Iran should not wait for the next US president to be elected before resolving its dispute with the West.

The Illinois senator said Tehran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its "illicit nuclear programme".

Iran insists its nuclear campaign is peaceful.

Mr Obama's tour has also taken in the Middle East where he visited Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories.

After the UK, Mr Obama will return to the US where he faces Republican John McCain - who visited Number 10 in March - in November's presidential election.

(BBC)

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