Mexico: expect action on Euro crisis at G20 summit

By Simon Johnson The April 2009 London summit of the G20 is widely regarded as having been a great success.  The world’s largest economies agreed on an immediate coordinated approach to the global financial crisis then raging and promised to work together on banking reforms that would support growth.  At the time, President Obama got high marks for his constructive engagement.

G20 summit host President Felipe Calderon of Mexico says he expects the world's largest economies to deliver more than the $430 billion pledged to stop the spread of the European financial crisis.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said that upcoming climate change talks in Mexico will produce "unprecedented results" but not a hoped-for legally binding treaty.Later this month 194 countries will meet in the Mexican resort city of Cancun for a second attempt at hammering out an agreement to curb greenhouse gases after 2012, when the current arrangement expires.The climate gathering takes place in the shadow of last December's Copenhagen summit, which ended in failure after China was accused of blocking a deal on binding commitments.

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Western officials should have realised this Summit would be different when they arrived in Seoul to find their phones and blackberrys didn't work. The problem was that Korea's nationwide 4G network was too advanced. On early negotiating missions, key UK officials found themselves communicating with London via gmail, on rented phones. That was never a problem in Pittsburgh, or Toronto. But as George Osborne liked to point out, this was the first G20 Summit not hosted by a G8 country - and, he might have added, the first where G8 countries didn't call the tune.

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday strongly condemned the massacre of 72 people, believed to be migrants who refused to work as hitmen for drug traffickers."President Felipe Calderon strongly condemns the acts in which 72 people, presumed migrants, lost their lives in Tamaulipas state," a statement said.Drug gangs are using "extortion and kidnapping of migrants as a means for financing and recruitment because they are having trouble getting money and people," the statement said, attributing the difficulties to the government's fight against them.