At the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit in Cannes, on 3 and 4 November, the Secretary-General urged the G-20 leaders to deliver united leadership to address the urgent problems of the world economy, and welcomed the efforts at the Cannes Summit in this regard.
We need to keep up the momentum at the coming G-20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Obama could delay naming his economic team to avoid interfering with the G-20 summit.
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If his intent was to stir the waters ahead of the G-20 summit, mission accomplished.
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European officials were hoping to use the G-20 summit to convince others to help.
The President will then attend the first plenary session of the G-20 Summit.
"It was a mistake by the organization for the G-20 summit, " Israel said.
In a few days leaders from countries representing 85% of the world economy will gather in Pittsburgh, Pa. for the G-20 Summit.
The raucous buildup to the G-20 summit in Seoul this week may put some nationalist U.S. conservatives on the horns of a dilemma.
The message from this G-20 summit is clear: We must take immediate steps that will prevent the next boom from getting out of hand.
President Obama had tried to push through a new pact last month, during the G-20 summit in Seoul, but talks broke down over the tariff issue.
Also lifting BP were the good vibes and apparent mutual agreement about BP between U.S. President Obama and U.K. Prime Minister Cameron at the G-20 summit.
Obama appeared to be quite comfortable and confident as president of the United States at the G-20 summit that produced an unprecedented global economic recovery package.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is due host G-8 leader in Sardinia in July, has already offered to upscale that meeting into a full G-20 summit.
The G-20 summit on Saturday has received favorable press reviews.
The president said after that meeting that world leaders meeting at the G-20 summit "cannot afford half-measures" as they try to hammer out ways to address the global financial crisis.
Yes, the balance of power at the G-20 summit shifted toward Russia, Brazil and its hundreds of billions in reserves, Saudi Arabia, and a rich though still economically stagnant Japan.
That was brought into sharp focus Thursday when South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, host of the G-20 summit, was asked at a press conference about the impact of the Fed's decision.
The meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, was the first time Obama and Putin held face-to-face talks since Putin returned to the president's office earlier this year.
Most of the heavy lifting for this G-20 summit was done last month at the finance ministers meeting, where representatives hashed out an agreement that gives emerging economies better representation on the International Monetary Fund board.
For those wondering the amount of work that goes into a G-20 Summit, perusing the fact sheets below will give some idea of how much gets packed into these short events when leaders around the world come together.
"The Pittsburgh summit is an important opportunity to continue the hard work that we have done in confronting the global economic crisis and renewing prosperity for our people, " President Obama said in a statement ahead of the start of the two-day G-20 summit, which begins Thursday.
The very serious economic issues dominating the Group of Twenty (G-20) summit still command our daily attention, and they are likely to do so for a considerable time to come.
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Fresh from a series of meetings in Washington that included the G-20 and a summit with the IMF and World Bank, Mantega highlighted the virtues of the Brazilian economic model which has made it the seventh largest economy in the world.
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That's why the G-20 chose Pittsburgh for its summit, at which representatives of the world's largest economies will meet from Thursday and Friday.
Today, at the Seoul Summit, G-20 issued a statement that includes principles on development and a comprehensive multi-year Plan of Action for future G-20 engagement.
All of this as the G-20 major industrial and emerging market countries were ending their summit meeting in Cannes on Friday, where a related drama played out.
Brown is due to host G-20 leaders in London in April and told reporters that he would use the economic summit to press for concerted international action and tougher global financial regulations.
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