The blunder occurred just weeks after Mr. Biden asked if a deceased congresswoman was in the audience during a speech.
In another high-profile error, Joe Biden referred to Cambodia as Colombia, which is hosting an international summit led by Southeast Asian leaders.
Now that we’re back together in Cambodia, I look forward to making even more progress than we’ve already made, and I’d like to thank the Colombian prime minister for his leadership as ASEAN chair and for hosting us all.
He was referring to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who currently presides over the 10-member regional bloc.
President Biden is currently on a whirlwind tour that includes stops at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, and the G20 summit in Indonesia.
It comes just weeks after he asked whether a deceased congresswoman was in the audience during a speech.
He made the error at a conference on hunger, nutrition, and health after apparently forgetting that former Indiana Republican representative Jackie Walorski died in a car accident in August.
On September 28, the 79-year-old looked around the room in Washington and stated: “Jackie, are you available? Whereabouts is Jackie? She should not be present.”
