Jim Leach

G-20 Meeting in Washington: The Good Intentions Summit

In the end, delegates at the financial summit of industrial and emerging economies delivered a closing statement without any concrete decisions. Host Bush has nothing left to say, and the world eagerly awaits his successor...

World › Financial overhaul added to Obama's to-do list

Monday 17th November, 07:02 AM JST WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is not president yet, but he has already been charged with yet another challenge after taking office: helping oversee the overhaul of the world’s financial regulatory...

Absent Obama looms large in D.C.

At summit, auto bailout talks, president elect looms large in discussions Obama is staying away, ensconced in Chicago, unwilling to make any public show of political influence before he is sworn in to office Jan. 20....

N.Korea Has Nothing to Gain from Stalling

President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday met staff at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., a Democrat-leaning think tank, and told them it was important to convince North Korea through close cooperation between South Korea...

Lee Meets Key Figures in Obama Camp

President Lee Myung-bak met with the U.S. delegation to the G20 financial summit in Washington on Friday afternoon. U.S. president-elect Barack Obama sent former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and Jim Leach, former...

Albright serves as Obama proxy at global summit (AFP)

AFP - Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright and an ex-Republican lawmaker on Saturday stood in for president-elect Barack Obama in meeting world leaders attending the G20 summit on the economic crisis.

World leaders agree action plan at crisis summit

WASHINGTON (AFP) - World leaders at a financial crisis summit in Washington have agreed on an action plan to restore global growth and prevent future financial upheaval while promising new spending plans, a trade deal and a set...

G20 leaders head home with plan to fight mutual foe: the economic meltdown

WASHINGTON - The emergency G20 summit this past weekend brought together leaders from nations that have spent centuries as far apart politically and philosophically as they are geographically. Yet ...

Global leaders take a leaf from Manmohan Singh's book

Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) Outlining a far-reaching action plan to tackle the growing global economic crisis, world leaders have agreed to act urgently upon all the three major issues Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised...

Economic Summit Vows Action

"Emerging market countries were not the cause of this crisis, but they are amongst its worst affected victims," declared Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Leaders from 21 nations and four international organizations...

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