| Japan questions Sarkozy's bid to expand G-8 | 27-AUG-09 |
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| Japan today questioned French President Nicolas Sarkozy's "unilateral" plan to expand the elite G-8 to a G-14 grouping at the 2011 Paris summit to include major emerging economies like India and China. |
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| Anurag Viswanath: Managing diversity - China gets a wake-up call | 12-JUL-09 |
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| China’s extreme north-west province, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), propelled into the global spotlight this week with rioting and violence between the Uighurs (Turkic- Muslims) and Han Chinese ethnic groups. President Hu Jintao rushed home from the ongoing G-8 Summit in Italy, drawing attention to the gravity of the situation. Mobs took to the streets of Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi and rioting turned into a free-for-all carnage. |
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| Time for a G-11 | 12-JUL-09 |
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| The G-8 summit in Italy has turned out to be more eventful than most meetings of this group. There is some movement forward on the two live global issues that have been the subjects of protracted negotiations (climate change since the late 1990s, and the Doha Round of trade talks from early in this decade), and a setback for India in the nuclear field. The broader message is that the need to enlarge the G-8, broadly recognised by most countries, has become more obvious than ever. The main topics discussed at the G-8 cannot be brought to any meaningful conclusion without the involvement of the G-5. After all, at least two economies in the G-5 (China and Brazil) are bigger than some who are in the G-8, and India is not far behind. China, Brazil and India also happen to be among the five most populous countries, and among the seven geographically largest. |
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| UN agencies welcome G-8 food security initiative | 11-JUL-09 |
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| UN agencies — the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development — today welcomed the $20 billion food security initiative announced by the leaders of the G-8 countries at their summit in Italy. |
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| Agreement on climate change unlikely at G8-G5 meet | 08-JUL-09 |
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| An early agreement on climate change between the industrialised G-8 countries and the emerging major economies of G-5 appears unlikely with the developed world focusing more on the current economic downturn than on setting goals for reducing global warming. |
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| PM seeks major reforms of international financial institutions | 07-JUL-09 |
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| Ahead of the G-8 meeting tomorrow, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for significant reforms of the international financial institutions to address global problems and asserted that India would seek its due place in such institutions. |
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| Ahead of G8 Summit, UN asks developed countries for aid commitments | 07-JUL-09 |
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| Ahead of the G-8 Summit, the UN has warned that the current economic crisis might bring developing economies to the brink of collapse threatening the very survival of their citizens, as it asked developed nations "not to turn their backs" on the world's most vulnerable. |
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| PM leaves tomorrow for G-8 meet in Italy | 06-JUL-09 |
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| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves on a visit to Italy tomorrow for attending a Summit of G-8 leaders with five Outreach countries in which global economic downturn and steps to correct will dominate. |
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| Non proliferation would be discussed at G8: Obama | 16-JUN-09 |
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| US President Barack Obama, who intends to aggressively pursue non-proliferation as an agenda, has said the issue will figure prominently when top eight economic powers of the world meet at the G-8 Summit in Italy later this month. |
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| Govt likely to fast-track IAEA move | 09-JUL-08 |
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With the four Left parties withdrawing support from the government two days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's return from a G-8 summit in Japan, the government too appears to be in no mood to waste time and has indicated that the prime minister may write to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on July 10 itself asking it to convene a meeting of its board of governors. |
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| Editorial: Many good intentions | 04-JUL-08 |
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The much-awaited national action plan on climate change, unveiled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ahead of his departure for Japan to attend the G-8 summit as a special invitee, was patently timed to serve as a bargaining tool at the global level but, aside from that, is designed to serve a domestic agenda. |
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