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The will to free the world of polio was underscored at the G8 summit in Canada, where G8 leaders pledged to help finish the job and rid Africa of the disease.
Climate negotiations have been in virtual limbo ever since the catastrophic and humiliating Copenhagen summit in 2009, where vertiginous expectations collided with hard political reality.
The ostensible purpose of the summit is to make those changes in the European Union’s decision-making machinery that would enable it to cope with the admission of at least 12 new members, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe.
The cumulative result of all these national objections, is that the Nice summit is likely to see only a modest increase in the potential for majority voting, much smaller than enlargement requires.
If these scraps were to be the sum total of the Nice summit, it will prove unsatisfactory, even a failure.
We must also ensure that solutions for strengthening financial stability and avoiding future turmoil – the focus of April’s G-20 summit – are discussed with all countries concerned.
The importance of this has been stressed repeatedly at recent international forums, including last August’s Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), and the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, the following month.
G-8 Movie NightMany people rightly regard the annual G-8 (Group of Eight) presidential summit as the closest thing we have to a functioning world government.
Consider the dubious results from the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005.
Le défi AmericainThe European Union summit that just ended in Copenhagen has more or less settled the EU's future frontiers.
LONDON: The glow of optimism at the European Union's Helsinki summit last month, when EU leaders decided to extend membership negotiations to all ten candidate countries from Central and Eastern Europe, plus Malta and Cyprus, is fading fast.
A December 2004 summit, to take place under a Dutch chairmanship, is to see the EU review Turkey's progress and decide, provided the criteria are met, on whether to start negotiations "without delay."
But when Europe did move more decisively, as it did at the Copenhagen summit in 2002, economic and political progress in Turkey accelerated in a very tangible way.
Few moments in history hold the promise of the EU summit of December 2004.
Afterwards, Moon’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, and intelligence chief Suh Hoon traveled to Pyongyang and Washington, where, standing on the White House lawn with Cho Yoon-je, South Korea’s ambassador to the US – but with no US officials present – they announced the summit.
The summit became possible because the US acceded to that counsel, turning its demand for denuclearization, which had previously been a precondition for talks, into a goal of negotiations.
The North must halt all nuclear and missile tests until the summit, and sanctions will remain in place.
The Kim-Trump summit is an opportunity that will be difficult to seize and easy to squander.
For example, if Trump decertifies the Iran nuclear deal on May 12, ahead of the summit, the move would almost certainly call into question America’s good faith and ability to honor negotiated international agreements.
Participation in the Winter Olympics and willingness to sit down with Trump have already given the North a propaganda boost, and a summit with the US president will confer legitimacy on Kim.
For Menendez, the audacity and secrecy of the Trump administration’s preparations for a planned summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was unacceptable.
Thus, it was reasonable for Pompeo to fear that knowledge of his secret talks would be leaked in an effort to undermine the summit and deny the administration a potential political victory.
But a failure to disclose secret preparatory talks for the most important presidential summit of the century is not one of them.
In casting his veto at the European Union’s December summit in Brussels, British Prime Minister David Cameron said, “What is on offer isn’t in Britain’s interests, so I didn’t agree to it,” as if agreement solely depended upon whether or not interests were satisfied.
While his summit with Kennedy in Vienna earlier in 1961 had done nothing to improve the situation, erecting the Wall on August 13 seemed to him a purely defensive act, not a show of force.
The summit took place against a background of scant progress in negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program and growing pressure from Israel for the international community to establish a “trigger” – a line that the Islamic Republic must not cross.
The impact of the Tehran summit, and whom it may have benefited, is not entirely clear.
But the participants’ inability to reach a common position on their hosts’ nuclear program or the violence in Syria – two of the fundamental questions that confronted the summit – obviously undermined Iran’s effort to demonstrate that, despite facing severe economic and diplomatic sanctions, it remains an effective international player.
In other words, reality betrayed the perception that Iran sought to create in hosting the NAM summit.
While hosting1997's Islamic Conference Organization summit last December, Iran drafted and promoted a resolution accepting the 1993 Oslo accords which established the framework for an Arab-Israeli peace.
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