President-Elect Barack Obama to talk with current U.S. President George W. Bush on several turnover issues.

From the Strait Times:

Mr Barack Obama holds his first post-election meeting with President George W. Bush on Monday, promising a civil handover of power even as aides said he seeks to reverse current White House policy on oil drilling and stem cell research.

Mr Bush, who invited the president-elect to the White House to discuss the transition, in his weekend radio address applauded Mr Obama’s election victory as a ‘triumph.’

‘He can count on my complete cooperation as he makes his transition to the White House,’ said the outgoing leader, who announced that he and his successor also would discuss Iraq and the global economic crisis in their first post-election face-to-face talks on Monday.

Mr Bush told about 1,000 aides during an emotional thank-you speech on Thursday that they needed to bring Mr Obama’s team up to speed on critical matters like the war and the meltdown.