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6 July, 2008
AFP. – The leaders of the eight main powers of the world, that will meet from tomorrow in Japan, will look for ways to cool the record prices of the petroleum and the foods. The other point that stands out of the summit will be the fight against the climatic heating. A massive security operative that involves more than 21.000 policemen sealed the island of Hokkaido (north) and relegated the antiglobalization demonstrators to the nearest city, Sapporo, at 150 kilometers of where the summit will be carried out and where four people were arrested on Saturday. The first leaders began to arrive to Japan on Sunday, among them the north american president, George W. Bush. In a combined press conference with Bush, the host of the summit, the first Japanese minister, Yasuo Fukuda, announced that he will travel to the ceremony of inauguration of the Olympic Games in Beijing on August and detached his presence from the human rights matter. Bush also confirmed his presence in Beijing after estimating that the contrary scenario would be an “insult” to China. China isn’t part of the G8 but its president, Hu Jintao, will be in Toyako as guest of the session on climatic change of Wednesday, the same as the presidents from Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Mexico, Felipe Calderón, as well as other leaders of emergent economies. The appointment in the town of Toyako will take place in moments in that the barrel of the petroleum is quoted to the record of 145 dollars – twice more than one year ago – and the shortage of the foods causes protests in the developing world, threatening a world economy hit already by the “subprime” crisis. The petroleum prices will continue falling due to the fall of the dollar, predicted in Algeria the president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Chakib Jelil, while Bush reaffirmed in Japan the northamerican policy of “a strong dollar.” For the earth. The fight against the climatic heating is one of the central topics of the appointment. The leaders from Germany, Canada, United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Russia should decide what follow up to give to the Protocol of Kyoto that expires in 2012, and to which Washington never joined. The final declaration of Toyako would indicate that “the G8 will lead the efforts to reduce in 50% the polluting emissions” for 2050, indicated the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. But United States rejects all commitment that doesn’t include India, China and other big polluting ones, specified the newspaper. Bush promised on Sunday that United States will play a “constructive” role in these discussions, while the former first Japanese minister Shinzo Abe revealed that the American leader and the French president Nicolás Sarkozy maintained a “ferocious dispute” on this topic in the summit of the G8 in Germany in 2007. The G8 would keep its promise also of duplicating the help to Africa to 50.000 million dollars for the 2010, adopted in its meeting in Gleneagles (Scotland) in 2005, said to the AFP a source of the group. But “the countries are still divided” on the calendar of other commitments with Africa, mainly the date limit for the payment of 60.000 million dollars to fight against the AIDS and the malaria, announced in the summit of the G8 on 2007, he added. The humanitarian groups ONE – created by the singer and activist Bono – and Oxfam requested that the record prices of the petroleum and the foods don’t derail the dialogue on the help to Africa since they have only increased the situation of the poorest. “The quick rise of the costs of the petroleum and the foods can hurt in the rich countries but they are destroying people’s life and whole economies in the countries in development”, said Takumo Yamada, of Oxfam. In answer to the shortage of the foods, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said to the Tagesspiegel am Sonntag newspaper that the G8 would adopt measures to “alleviate in the short term the alimentary crisis and a long term strategy to increase the world agricultural production.” The final declaration of the G8 also “would strongly condemn” the president of Zimbabue, Robert Mugabe, after his reelection on June 27 in elections denounced as fraudulent, said the White House. Source: La Nación Deje un comentario |
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