G20 leaders set for summit on financial crisis, regulation

September 26th, 2009 EU presidency: G-20 summit was 'a step forward'STOCKHOLM — The EU presidency calls the Pittsburgh Group of 20 summit "a step forward," because world leaders agreed to restrict bankers' bonuses and introduce tougher financial market regulation. Swedish Premier Fredrik Reinfeldt and Finance Minister Anders Borg say the agreements struck at the summit of rich and developing nations "took the first steps toward a more sustainable financial system." The key deals struck by the G-20 in Pittsburgh included tougher rules on bonus payments, improved regulation of the financial market as well as stricter supervision.

September 24th, 2009 PITTSBURGH - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here Thursday for the G20 summit that will take stock of the state of the world economy following the year-long crisis and deliberate upon how to strengthen the global financial regulatory system. The summit is being hosted by President Barack Obama.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday left for the US to attend the G20 summit in Pittsburgh hosted by President Barack Obama. The summit will take stock of the state of the world economy following the year-long crisis and deliberate upon how to strengthen the global financial regulatory system.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves Wednesday for the two-day G20 Summit in Pittsburgh where he is expected to make a strong pitch for a much larger role for developing countries like India in the global financial architecture. Apart from taking stock of the yearlong global economic crisis, he is expected to focus on the need to reform multilateral financial institutions to reflect today's reality and reiterate India's opposition to all forms of protectionism, officials said.

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will make a pitch for reforms of world financial institutions and concrete steps to mitigate the global crisis when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh participates in the G20 summit of major and emerging economies in Pittsburgh Friday. India will focus on the need for reforms of global financial institutions to reflect ground economic realities as it exist today, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told reporters here Saturday in a curtain-raiser briefing ahead of Manmohan Singh's two-day visit to Pittsburgh starting Thursday.

September 12th, 2009 IMF chief: Economic crisis not over yetBERLIN — The global economic crisis isn't over yet, despite positive signals from Europe's biggest economies, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned in comments published Saturday. More work also needs to be done on financial-sector regulation, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh Sept.

September 4th, 2009 Special EU summit called ahead of G20 talks in USSTOCKHOLM — Sweden has called for an extra meeting of European Union leaders to discuss the global financial crisis ahead of a summit of Group of 20 nations in the U.S. later this month.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ahead of the G20 summit later this month, India has underlined the need for developing better surveillance and regulation to tackle the global financial crisis and stressed a bigger voice for developing countries in international financial institutions. "There should be better and transparent regulatory mechanism for capital markets as well as a stronger voice for developing countries, External Affairs Minister S.M.

July 8th, 2009 ROME - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh arrived in Rome on a four-day visit on Tuesday to attend the G-8 summit.

July 6th, 2009 Issues facing the G8 leadersThe Group of Eight leaders of the most industrialized countries will tackle the following issues during their three-day summit starting Wednesday in the central Italian city of L'Aquila. ECONOMIC CRISIS: The leaders will take stock of efforts so far to revive their flagging economies, while continuing the work to coordinate responses to the crisis as well as looking at when to launch exit strategies from large stimulus packages in some countries, notably the United States and Britain.

June 29th, 2009 ROME - Facing a series of domestic scandals that would have embarrassed Roman Emperor Tiberius, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has decided to take the sobriety route by announcing the program for this year's G-8 summit. A spokesman for Berlusconi said the summit had been moved from the Sardinian resort of La Maddalena to the devastated town in Abruzzo, central Italy, partly to bring a degree of "sobriety" to proceedings in a time of international crisis.

May 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies including India will gather in Pittsburgh, an icon of America's economic renewal, Sep 24-25 for the next G-20 summit. President Barack Obama will host leaders from 20 countries which represent 85 percent of the global economy to discuss ways of recovering from the global economic and financial crisis, the White House announced Thursday.

May 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US city of Pittsburgh will host the next Group of 20 (G20) summit of the world's leading wealthy and developing nations to highlight the effects of the global recession on industry, the White House announced Thursday. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the Sep 24-25 summit, which will be the third gathering of G20 leaders on the economic crisis since November, would "take stock" of the state of the struggling global economy and financial crisis.

April 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here in the early hours of Saturday after a four-day visit to London to attend the G20 summit. On the margins of the summit, he also held bilateral talks with his host and British counterpart Gordon Brown and US President Barack Obama.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today met his British counterpart Gordon Brown in London at 10 Downing Street ahead of G20 summit.