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Tue 03 Mar 2009France threatens G20 walkout if demands not met
France threatened tonight to storm out of this week's G20 summit if it did not get the results it wanted, despite Britain's call for countries to unite and restore confidence to a broken world economy.
As leaders of the world's big powers converged on London for Thursday's crisis meeting to chart a way out of the worst global downturn since the Great Depression, the World Bank announced a $50 billion programme to get international trade flowing again.
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