Ethiopia, Malawi at G20 Summit

  1. Posted on Tuesday 11 May 2010 - 15:10
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    Andualem Sisay, AfricaNews reporter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    The G-20 June summit host Canada invited Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia and Malawi's president Bingu Wa Mutharika to represent Africa at the upcoming summit. The Ethiopian has been chosen for a second time to represent Africa in its climate change negotiations with the developed countries.
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    Mutharika is accompanying Meles as the current chairperson of the African Union.

    Canada announced that leaders of Ethiopia, Malawi, the Netherlands, Spain and Vietnam as special invitees who will join leaders of the permanent members of the 20 industrialized and developing countries at the June 26-27 summit.

    The G20 includes 19 other countries including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Republic of Korea, Turkey, the U.S., and the European Union.

    The G-20 was established in 1999, in the wake of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, to bring together major advanced and emerging economies to stabilize the global financial market.

    Since its inception, the G-20 has held annual Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meetings and discussed measures to promote the financial stability of the world and to achieve a sustainable economic growth and development.

    To tackle the financial and economic crisis that spread across the globe in 2008, the G-20 members were called upon to further strengthen international cooperation. Accordingly, the G-20 Summits have been held in Washington in 2008, and in London and Pittsburgh in 2009.

    Following the Toronto summit, the Republic of Korea is set to host the G20 November Summit.

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