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Mon 10 Oct 2008Beijing summit calls for enhanced co-operation to overcome financial crisis
EUROPEAN AND Asian leaders representing nearly half the world's population concluded a two-day summit in the Chinese capital at the weekend with a call for the international community to overcome the financial crisis through enhanced co-operation, writes Deaglán de Bréadún, Political Correspondent in Beijing.
Forty-five countries and organisations were represented at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) held in Beijing, the last major international gathering before the Group of 20 (G20) world economic summit in Washington on November 15th. The G20 consists of 19 of the world's leading industrialised and developing nations as well as the EU.
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