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Sunday, October 19, 2008

US to host global finance summit

US to host global finance summit


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The planned summits will "seek agreement on principles of reform"
The presidents of the US, France and the European Commission have unveiled plans for a series of summits to discuss the global financial crisis.
Speaking before talks at Camp David with Nicolas Sarkozy and
Jose Manuel Barroso, George W Bush said it was "essential that we work
together". The first summit will be held in the US after November's presidential election. The Europeans want the meetings to pave the way for talks on an overhaul of the world's financial regulatory systems.
Before he arrived at Camp David, the presidential
retreat in the state of Maryland, Mr Sarkozy warned the world could not
"continue to run the economy of the 21st Century with instruments of
the economy of the 20th Century".

Calls for action
The BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington says that against the
beautiful autumnal backdrop of the retreat, Mr Bush uttered words of
cold comfort to his French counterpart and Mr Barroso.

Together we will work to modernise and strengthen our nations' financial systems so we can help ensure this crisis doesn't happen again

US President George W Bush
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"It is essential that we work together because we are in this crisis together," he said.
Mr Bush went on to invite world leaders to a global economic
summit in the US soon to talk about the global response to the
financial crisis.
"Together we will work to modernise and strengthen our nations'
financial systems so we can help ensure this crisis doesn't happen
again," he added.
But Mr Bush asserted that any plan to re-think the mechanisms
of the global financial system could not be allowed to undermine the
free market.
"It is essential that we preserve the foundations of democratic
capitalism - a commitment to free markets, free enterprise and free
trade," he said.

'New order'
President Sarkozy seemed to have a rather more sweeping vision
to deal with what he called a "worldwide crisis", our correspondent
says.
He said the crisis could offer a "great opportunity" to build
the capitalism of the future and leave behind the "hateful practices"
of the past.


We cannot continue along the same lines because the same problems will trigger the same disasters

French President Nicolas Sarkozy
"We cannot continue along the same lines because the same problems will trigger the same disasters," he warned.
Mr Sarkozy said the hedge funds, tax havens and financial institutions operating without supervision should all be re-thought.
"This is no longer acceptable," he added. "This sort of capitalism is a betrayal of the sort of capitalism we believe in."
Mr Barroso said European nations had taken swift action to
tackle the squeeze in the financial markets, but stronger and more
effective global action was now required.
"We need a new global financial order," he added.
Details of the summits are still to be worked out, but White
House spokesman Tony Fratto said the first was likely to be held in
November.
He added that Mr Sarkozy had recommended New York as a
location. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has proposed using the
organisation's headquarters there as a venue.


A global summit would echo the Bretton Woods conference in 1944
That summit would seek to "review progress being made to address the
current crisis and to seek agreement on principles of reform needed to
avoid a repetition," the leaders said in their statement.
"Later summits would be designed to implement agreement on
specific steps to be taken to meet those principles," it added. Other
world leaders are to be consulted over the plan.
Correspondents say such meetings would echo the Bretton Woods conference after World War II.
At Bretton Woods, world leaders agreed to establish the
International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, the original institution of the World
Bank Group, in an effort to prevent a repeat of the depression of the
1930s.

'Big enough and bold enough'
Earlier on Saturday, in his weekly radio address, Mr Bush sought
once again to reassure Americans about the $700bn bail-out of US
financial institutions.
Elements of the plan are similar to those earlier announced by European governments.
The president said the federal government had taken "aggressive measures" to protect financial security.
The BBC's Jane O'Brien in Washington says European leaders have
in the past blamed the US for the crisis, which started when borrowers
began defaulting on their mortgages.
But she adds that Mr Sarkozy, whose country currently holds the
EU presidency, has made it clear he wants to move away from
finger-pointing and towards a partnership with the US



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