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05/04/09 : G20 "a boost to the world economy" :
Labour prospective candidate for Reading East Anneliese Dodds has welcomed the progress made at this week's London G20 summit, which should bring a major boost to the world economy and help save businesses and jobs in Britain and in Reading.
The Leaders at the G20 agreed to:
- " Make available an additional $1.1 trillion programme of support to help the world economy through the crisis and to restore credit, growth and jobs
- " Strengthen the financial system by putting in place a better and more credible system of surveillance and regulation.
- " Reform international financial institutions like the IMF to overcome this crisis and prevent future ones.
- " Promote global trade and investment and reject protectionism.
- " Reaffirmed their commitment to meeting the Millennium Development Goals and to delivering on development aid pledges.
Anneliese Dodds says: "We face a global financial crisis on a scale that we have never really seen before. At the end of the day, to get the British economy back on track we have to help get the world economy back on track too. To protect jobs and businesses here in the South-East, it was vital to get world leaders working together to restore confidence, growth and jobs, and Gordon Brown deserves huge credit for seeing what needed to be done and for the determination he brought to the task. And it's not just Labour saying that: the constant carping from David Cameron - and Rob Wilson - looks really petty when Barack Obama, Nicholas Sarkozy, and all the other leaders praise what was achieved in London under Gordon Brown's chairmanship. Does anyone think David Cameron, who has not even tried to build links with right-wing leaders in Europe, would even have had the imagination even to call the G20 together?"
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