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To take one notable example, Merkel and Sarkozy once held a summit to forge closer ties with Russia without bothering to consult or include the EU member states in Russia’s immediate proximity.
The proposal may get a boost when Abdullah meet President Bush in Texas later this spring, but its early survival depends first on its reception at the upcoming Arab summit in Beirut.
Crown Prince Abdullah’s initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
Meanwhile, in the years since the Copenhagen summit, there has been a surge of concrete progress on the part of the “non-state actors” whose cooperation will be needed to implement an international agreement.
European Commission President Romano Prodi confirmed Russia's status as a "market economy" at last May's EU-Russia summit, a move that should have improved Russia's access to European markets.
Climax will likely come next spring, but the countdown will begin at the European summit in Dublin on October 5.
The London G20 summit gave a strengthened mandate to the IMF, while tripling its resources.
In the run-up to the G20 summit access to the Fund’s credit facilities was increased and policy conditions were streamlined.
The G20 summit marked the return of the United States to multilateralism.
For advocates, AMR’s appearance on the G20’s agenda last year, at the group’s summit in Hangzhou, China, represented a major triumph.
In the run-up to this year’s G20 summit in Hamburg, I started to worry that Germany would fall short of these expectations.
The lengthy communiqué issued at the end of the Hamburg summit includes a statement on AMR that is bolder than I would have expected.
Russian leaders may have misinterpreted as a sign of weakness Europe’s representation at last month’s EU-Russia summit by two Portuguese politicians – European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose government currently holds the revolving EU presidency.
In that case, do investors and policymakers have a plan B?Selfishness for All?AMSTERDAM – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has just hosted a special summit in New York intended to spur action on climate change.
At the UN summit, hundreds of political and business leaders from around the world outlined commitments that constitute practical steps toward enhancing their countries’ economic prospects, improving their citizens’ quality of life, and benefiting firms’ bottom lines.
Fortunately, the architects of the UN summit – despite their focus on the “win-win” mantra – also recognized the need for such action.
In March, the members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) regional bloc – Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda – convened the first-ever high-level summit focused on developing a regional approach to delivering durable solutions for Somali refugees.
Much talk will be heard in coming months: the ministerial meeting in Luxembourg, numerous conferences and seminars around the region, and in September a Baltic summit will be held in St. Petersburg at which political and business leaders will discuss what is needed in order to move ahead.
But, despite its diminished status, the recent NAM summit in Tehran was able to claim the world’s attention.
Why hold the summit in Tehran, some members asked?
The dispute over the wisdom of holding the summit in Iran’s capital revived the core debate about what “non-aligned” means in the post-Cold War world.
Of course, the bothersome aspect of NAM’s Tehran summit is that Iran will head the movement for the next three years.
India’s participation in the Tehran summit should not strain its ties with the US.
South Africa, for one, was a key supporter of the United Kingdom in discussions about AMR at the recent G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, and the issue might not have ended up in the meeting’s communiqué without its support.
Yankee Bases Go HomeRIO DE JANEIRO – Last month, the leaders of all 12 countries of South America (except one) gathered in Quito, Ecuador’s capital, for the summit of the Union of South American Nations.
For, instead of infrastructure plans, commercial or environmental treaties, or even multilateral action against such common problems as violence and poverty, the issue that dominated both press accounts and the speeches at the gathering was the new US-Colombian military agreement, announced less than a month before the summit.
One week after the summit, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to calm the continent’s fears about the US-Colombia agreement, explaining that it is merely a minor revision of the Bill Clinton-era Plan Colombia, an American program to support the government against the drug cartels.
This seems to be a driving factor behind China and India’s refusal to go along with Europe’s plans at last December’s global climate summit in Copenhagen.
Both the outgoing head of the UN climate-change secretariat and Commissioner Hedegaard have admitted the obvious: a deal is extremely unlikely to be reached at the next major summit in Mexico at the end of the year.
Heading into its annual meetings in a few weeks (followed by the G-20 summit in Seoul in November), the IMF is bowing to pressure to drop ever-larger sums into the EU with ever-fewer conditions.
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