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G8 and G20 Research Groups release compliance reports

June 18, 2010

TORONTO, ON — On June 21, 2010, the G8 Research Group will release the final com­pli­ance report mea­sur­ing progress made by the G8 on the pledges made at the 2009 L’Aquila Sum­mit, with input from the G8 Research Cen­tre at the State Uni­ver­si­ty High­er School of Eco­nom­ics led by Pro­fes­sor Mari­na Lar­i­ono­va in Moscow. The full report will be avail­able for down­load at the G8 Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre web­site at .

A sep­a­rate com­pli­ance report on Iran will also be pre­sent­ed.

The G20 Research Group will present a report on finan­cial reg­u­la­tions and anoth­er on Mex­i­co and cli­mate change, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Cen­tre for Dia­logue and Analy­sis on North Amer­i­ca (CEDAN) in Mex­i­co City.

Pro­fes­sor Alan Alexan­droff will also dis­cuss the work of the Glob­al Trade Alert Project.

A video of the brief­ing will be made avail­able online at the G8 Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre at and the G20 Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre web­site at soon after the event. Infor­ma­tion is also avail­able at G8 Live .

PLACE:
MaRS Build­ing, South Tow­er
101 Col­lege Street, Suite 406
Toron­to, ON M5G 1L7

WHEN:
9:00 am to 10:00 am
June 21, 2010

PARTICIPANTS:
— Erin Fitzger­ald, Neti­la Dem­neri and mem­bers of the G8 Research Group com­pli­ance unit
— Mari­na Lar­i­ono­va, Mark Rackhman­gulov and Yuriy Zayt­sev, State Uni­ver­si­ty High­er School of Eco­nom­ics, Moscow
— Susan Khaz­a­eli and Masa Kovic, G8 Research Group
— Alan Alexan­droff, G20 Research Group and Glob­al Trade Alert Project
— Ivan Sav­ic and Niko­lai Roudev, G20 Research Group
— Car­o­line Bracht, G20 Research Group, and Sofia Vig­uri, CEDAN

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For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Made­line Koch
Man­ag­ing Direc­tor
G8 and G20 Research Groups
416–588-3833
mad.koch@utoronto.ca


About the G8 and G20 Research Groups
The G8 and G20 Research Groups share the mis­sion of serv­ing as the world’s lead­ing inde­pen­dent source of infor­ma­tion and research on the G8 and the G20. Based at the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs at Trin­i­ty Col­lege in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, the G8 Research Group was found­ed in 1987 and the G20 Research Group in 2008. Both are inter­na­tion­al net­works of schol­ars, pro­fes­sion­als and stu­dents inter­est­ed in the activ­i­ties of the G8 and the G20. For more infor­ma­tion, please vis­it http://www.g8.utoronto.ca and http://www.g20.utoronto.ca.

About the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to
The Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to is ded­i­cat­ed to fos­ter­ing an aca­d­e­m­ic com­mu­ni­ty in which the learn­ing and schol­ar­ship of every mem­ber can flour­ish, with vig­i­lant pro­tec­tion for indi­vid­ual human rights and a res­olute com­mit­ment to the prin­ci­ples of equal oppor­tu­ni­ty, equi­ty and jus­tice. For more infor­ma­tion, please vis­it http://www.utoronto.ca.