The White House says U.S. President Barack Obama will hold bilateral summits with the heads of China, Japan and Russia in Hawaii on Saturday as world leaders convene for the 19th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this weekend.

White House Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications, Ben Rhodes, said in a news briefing Tuesday that the U.S. president will first meet with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Nodo of Japan, a nation he said the U.S. shares a broad range of economic and security interests with.

Rhodes said Obama will next meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and discuss a wide range of issues including nuclear security, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Iran and North Korea.

The White House official said talks between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao will follow and focus on Iranian and North Korean issues, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and economic matters. He added that Obama will express the U.S.’s concerns over China’s currency policy in the summit with Hu.

Hawaii is the U.S. president’s first stop on a nine-day trip to the Asia-Pacific region that he leaves for on Friday. He will chair the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hawaii on Sunday and later visit Australia and Indonesia for the East Asia Summit.