Summit on ruins

The meeting of world leaders shocked the world

Summit on ruins. The next G8 meeting was held in an Aquilian Italian city destroyed by the earthquake. Almost in the Spartan conditions, the heads of states and governments decided to limit strategic weapons and the allocation of $ 18 billion to the aid of Africa to the countries of Africa, the Psychological calculation of Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was justified: the atmosphere of unity in the face of human misfortune dominated the summit. The forum was attended by about 40 heads of states and governments plus the leaders of the largest international organizations. As the main site, one of the two buildings surviving in Aquille - barracks of the school of financial guard were chosen.

Ruins to choose from
A visit to the districts that suffered from an earthquake was an obligatory point of the program. “We knew about the scale of damage, because we saw reports, but what we saw here is terrifying, even us, accustomed to earthquakes,” said, examining the ruins, Japanese Prime Minister Taro ASO. The delegations chose objects representing architectural-historical value in order to assess the possibilities of their restoration. Russia, for example, got a palace in the style of the XVIII century Baroque and the Church of St. Gregory, laid down in the XI century. According to approximate estimates of experts, the restoration of the palace will cost € 3.5 million, and the temple - € 4 million. The Spaniards have long announced the readiness to restore the Spanish fortress of Aquila. Berlusconi thanked his colleagues for participating and stated that the “eight” would be gathering in Aquille once again to discuss the problem of spontaneous disasters.

Historical handshake
The guests of the forum were in great demand by a special postage stamp released by the Italy Ministry of Communications. It depicts a globe and small turtles on it. On the final day of the summit, its participants joked that they were promoted with seven -mile, and not tortoise steps. In addition, a new currency was presented in Aquille - Eurodollar, designed to symbolize the unity of the United States and the United States of Europe. The Berlusconi presented the Monet Silvio to the world leaders. It depicts the number 1, the shadow repeating five times, according to the number of continents. On the reverse side is knocked out: "Unity in variety."

Games of famous and powerful. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right)

and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (left) experience special feelings

To the President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. Which did not prevent them from arguing during the official

negotiations in Aquille

In fact, there were actually several summits, every day took place in a new format. The first met 8 leaders, then 14, and at the end 27. The main topic was, of course, a crisis. The second most important is Africa. The leaders of the states were, as they say, in the topic. For example, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev returned from African tour at the end of June. US President Barack Obama also studied the problems of Africa thoroughly, because at the end of the forum he was supposed to fly to Ganu directly from Rome. Africa in Italy was represented by Colonel Muamar Gaddafi, invited to the forum, he is the chairman of the African Union. Gaddafi appeared by the end of the second day of the summit: where his usual Bedouin tent was installed, was not reported for security reasons. On the way from Rome, Gaddafi unexpectedly ordered the driver to stop and took a short walk on the freeway-under the white umbrella and in the company of amazon bodyguards. Upon the arrival of the leader of the Libyan revolution, Barack Obama greeted the leader of the Libyan. Their handshake is already called historical. But most of the political decisions taken at the summit are called more declarative. Among them: restriction of gas emissions into the atmosphere, restriction of strategic weapons.

Women's program

The first ladies who arrived in Italy, who arrived in Italy, were taken on excursions in Rome, they were accepted by the Pope Benedict XVI, who, after a collective audience, devoted one to each one minute. It is interesting that dad, who was not invited to the summit, nevertheless had a noticeable influence on him. On the eve of the opening of the meeting, the papal encyclic was released - the most important church document called "mercy in the truth." It appeared at this moment not by chance, since it was dedicated to the topic of morality in politics and the connection of ethics and economics. Dad asked believers to pray for the success of the forum and blessed its participants.

Dmitry Medvedev at the Eight summit found a reserve currency - Eurodollar.

Silvio Berlusconi handed each of the participants in the meeting a memorable coin

The results of the G8 summit

• An economic declaration has been adopted, calling for all countries to develop strategies for overcoming the crisis, which will ensure a steady rise in the world economy
• G8 countries will allocate $ 15 billion per program of food security for poor countries
• By 2050, it was decided to reduce the volume of emissions into the atmosphere by 50%, for developed countries - by 80% compared to the level of 1990
• The proposal of Mexico on the creation of the Green Fund was approved to finance projects to reduce emissions into the atmosphere
• It was decided by the joint efforts of the G8 participants to restore the city of Akvil, who suffered from the earthquake on April 6, 2009
• A joint declaration that urges Iran has adopted to stop the development of nuclear weapons and condemning the statements of the Iranian president about the Holocaust. The declaration contains an unconditional requirement for the Iranian leadership of full -scale cooperation with all UN commissions on problematic issues
• Participants in the summit called on all countries to introduce a moratorium on conducting nuclear tests. The heads of state -member state G8 advocated the speedy beginning of negotiations under an agreement prohibiting the production of nuclear fuel as one of the components in the development of an atomic bomb

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