President-elect Barack Obama is steering clear of this weekend's emergency global financial summit in Washington, a decision that gives him distance from his unpopular predecessor's policies and avoids any appearance of upstaging the current president.
WASHINGTON, Nov 11 - President-elect Barack Obama is steering clear of this weekend's emergency global financial summit in Washington, a decision that gives him distance from his unpopular predecessor's policies and avoids any appearance of...
CHICAGO, Nov 10 - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will not attend the global financial summit in Washington on Nov. 14-15, an aide said on Monday. The Bush administration has called the summit of the countries...
RICHMOND, Va., Oct 22 - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed a plan for President George W. Bush to host a financial summit, saying global coordination was needed to tackle the economic...
RICHMOND, VA., Oct 22 - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed a plan for President George W. Bush to host a global financial summit in the Washington area on Nov. 15. "I...
* Bush announces global financial summit * U.S., EU agree more meetings will be needed * First step will be to agree "principles of reform" WASHINGTON, Oct 18 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced...
UNITED NATIONS, May 26 - The United Nations rescheduled a summit focused on the financial crisis which will attempt to lay down proposals for a new international financial architecture to June 24-26, a spokesman said...
UNITED NATIONS, May 22 - A U.N. summit to discuss the global financial crisis planned for early June may be postponed by a few...
UNITED NATIONS, May 22 - A U.N. summit to discuss the global financial crisis planned for early June may be postponed slightly, the spokesman for General Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann said on Friday. Enrique...
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 - U.S. President George W. Bush will host a summit on Nov. 15 in the Washington, D.C., area to discuss the global financial crisis and ways to prevent it from happening again,...