There is no doubt this summit will be dominated by the latest appalling and enthralling instalment of the Greek tragedy.
What is known is that Summit has no plans to turn Powder Mountain into an alpine Disney World.
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The near-term measures that need to be approved by the summit are no secret: reduce Greece's mountainous debt, recapitalise vulnerable banks and create a credible firewall to protect endangered but still-solvent countries like Spain and Italy.
Banda spoke to CNN's Athena Jones about why she believes repairing her country's relationship with the IMF was so imperative for its future and why the African Union Summit will no longer be held in Malawi.
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David Cameron wants Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, to be in no doubt that unless the EU budget is frozen in real terms and Britain's rebate is maintained there will be no deal at this summit.
But there is no doubt that the summit's action plan includes a long list of financial sector dimensions to be addressed, including: accounting standards, hedge funds, risk disclosures, financial sector assessments, credit rating agencies, risk-management and stress-testing models, international standard setters, sanctions for misconduct, reporting to supervisors in different countries, and more.
Yet every summit highlights that no one is in fact in charge in Europe and no one has a mandate to do what is necessary to prevent the failure of the Euro.
And what I said before is that, fortunately, during this summit there were no issues that were left off the table, everything was open, and this was one of the issues that was discussed.
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The unscripted moments are likely to be the most interesting at the summit as there is no significant agreement expected on any of the major issues.
The day after the Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones' lawsuit could go forward, the story led most major newspapers, above the announcement by Boris Yeltsin at the NATO summit that he would no longer target nuclear missiles at the Western alliance.
One need look no further than the Clinton-Yeltsin summit meeting to appreciate how absurd such a stance is.
Mr Lampreia says that Brazil would have no problems if Mr Pastrana asked the summit to support his plan.
As a practical matter, there is no such thing as a non-summit.
No date or place was announced for the summit, which was agreed during a telephone conversation between the two men late on Saturday.
Bill Clinton got Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to shake hands on the White House lawn, but no peace, and no prize, followed the unhappy Camp David summit of 2000.
No new members were added at the Chicago summit earlier this year, causing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to declare that Chicago should be the last summit that did not focus on enlargement.
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Mary Creagh, Labour's shadow environment secretary, described the drought summit as being "more talk and no action".
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An EU summit meeting Wednesday has so far produced no breakthrough developments.
Leaders of the 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere ended their fourth Summit of the Americas this weekend with no agreement to create a free trade zone for the region.
Those moderates, several of whom flirted with ObamaCare in the Senate Finance Committee, are still sensitive to the "party of no" charge and, if Obama handles the summit well, would be feeling even more pressure to play ball.
For the first time in living memory, a prime minister of the UK has gone to an EU summit, not only prepared to say no, but in the event actually used the veto when it became necessary in our national interest.
She said she got no direct response on her proposal for a local government summit.
But unlike previous attempts to achieve a resolution to the region's turmoil through traditional means, there would be no negotiating nor any political talks at Sunday's summit.
Mistakes had been made, she said, at December's Copenhagen summit, which was intended to provide a comprehensive package of measures to combat the causes and impacts of climate change - the conclusion to a commitment made by all governments at the 2007 summit in Bali - but which ended with no such thing.
This may explain why the stand-in Czech prime minister, Jan Fischer, seemed to be trying to square a circle when he said today in Prague that his technocratic government would take his demand for a footnote to the October summit only if they had a promise of no more funny business from the president.
So the French president, full of righteous certainty, attended a summit in Brussels determined to get backing for a no-fly zone.
But there is no guarantee that Europe's leaders will read it before their summit.
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