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...will take over this month. Bush came to power deeply skeptical of foreign aid, then backed the biggest increase in history. "The great thing about the U.S. is that it always does the right thing in the end," a senior adviser to Tony Blair deadpanned before the Bush-Blair summit last spring. "It's too bad that it sometimes takes until...
...country, art, education and the economy have all been leveled to a ground zero. I'm convinced, though, that the problem we face is not religious but political. And so it will never be solved with a religious summit. If you hold a meeting of Muslim sheiks, Christian pastors and Jewish rabbis, they inevitably come out with blissful smiles and report that they have found their values to be mostly identical, and they are right...
...Verbatim "We go from summit to summit but our peoples go from abyss to abyss." HUGO CHAVEZ, President of Venezuela, discussing the failings of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg...
SOUTH AFRICA Baby Steps Toward Tomorrow The earth summit in Johannesburg ended on an unexpected upbeat note for the Green lobby. Russia and Canada announced they will seek to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Their decision means the treaty, including its system of trading rights to emit carbon, should now be able to take effect. Other achievements of the summit included an agreement on water and sanitation. Governments pledged to halve the number of people (about 1.1 billion) lacking clean water and basic sanitation by 2015. Delegates also agreed that international trade deals will no longer be able...
...talks resumed on Sept. 3 after a summer recess, but a war of words was heating up before that date. German Finance Minister Hans Eichel publicly reprimanded Switzerland at the E.U.?s Seville summit in June, saying it was unacceptable for any nation to make a living as "a safe haven for tax evaders." A British treasury minister, Paul Boateng, has attacked Swiss banking secrecy as an obstacle to fighting terrorism. And E.U. officials say privately that they expect pressure on Switzerland to build this fall as more politicians direct the spotlight toward Swiss morals. "The Swiss will inevitably...