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G-20 Summit 2014
Topic Started: Nov 16 2014, 09:15 AM (157 Views)
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Sure will be awkward for the leaders of the US, the UK and Canada, etc., with Putin in the room...

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Western leaders confront Putin at G20 with threat of more sanctions
Reuters

By Alexei Anishchuk and Jane Wardell

BRISBANE Australia (Reuters) - Western leaders warned Vladimir Putin at a G20 summit on Saturday that he risked more economic sanctions if he failed to end Russian backing for separatist rebels in Ukraine.
Russia denied any involvement in an escalation of the separatist war in eastern Ukraine, where more than 4,000 people have been killed since April, but faced strong rebukes from leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
"I guess I’ll shake your hand but I have only one thing to say to you: you need to get out of Ukraine," Harper told Putin at the summit in Brisbane, Australia, according to his spokesman Jason MacDonald.

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And Australia takes notice after how Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been standing against Putin:

Reuters

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Aussies take notice after Stephen Harper 'shirtfronts' Vladimir Putin

The Canadian Press

By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press

RISBANE, Australia - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has earned some love from the Australian media for his dustup with Russia's Vladimir Putin on the first day of the Group of 20 summit.
All-news networks and Australia's Sunday Mail reported on the prime minister's bold admonishment to Putin to "get out of Ukraine" at a private leaders' retreat ahead of the official opening of the summit earlier this weekend.

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Edited by MSantor, Nov 16 2014, 09:21 AM.
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U.S., EU override Australia to put climate change on G20 agenda
Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:51pm EST

By Lincoln Feast and Jane Wardell

BRISBANE Australia (Reuters) - The G20 communique will include a significant passage on climate change, EU officials said on Sunday, as the United States and other heavyweight nations override host Australia's attempts to keep the issue off the formal agenda.

Much of the meeting of world leaders in Australia has been overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine, with Western leaders warning Russian President Vladimir Putin that he risked more economic sanctions if he failed to end Russian backing for separatist rebels.

On Sunday, momentum swung back to other major concerns for the Group of 20 leading economies, including climate change.

That is something of an embarrassment for Australia, which had argued it was not a clear economic issue and so should not be discussed at the G20. Indeed, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has questioned the science behind climate change.

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