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Hot off the Press — The G20 Seoul Summit 2010: Shared growth beyond crisis

October 28, 2010

TORONTO, ON — The G20 Research Group is proud to announce the release of “The G20 Seoul Sum­mit 2010: Shared Growth Beyond Cri­sis,” its lat­est spe­cial pub­li­ca­tion ded­i­cat­ed to the G20 sum­mit pub­lished by News­desk Media.

This issue con­tains arti­cles by the Seoul Summit’s host, Kore­an pres­i­dent Lee Myung-bak, as well as past host Stephen Harp­er and next year’s host Nico­las Sarkozy. It also con­tains con­tri­bu­tions from Mexico’s Felipe Calderon, who will host the G20 in 2012, and oth­er G20 lead­ers Angela Merkel of Ger­many and Her­man Van Rompuy of the Euro­pean Union.

As in the past, the pub­li­ca­tion draws on the wis­dom of a wide range of experts, includ­ing John Kufuor, for­mer pres­i­dent of Ghana, Han Seung-soo, for­mer prime min­is­ter of Korea, SaKong Il, chair of Korea’s Pres­i­den­tial Com­mit­tee orga­niz­ing the Seoul Sum­mit, Robert Zoel­lick, pres­i­dent, World Bank, Pas­cal Lamy, World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion, Angel Gur­ría, Organ­i­sa­tion for Eco­nom­ic Co-oper­a­tion and Devel­op­ment, Mir­ta Ros­es Periago, Pan-Amer­i­can Health Orga­ni­za­tion, Lars Thunell, Inter­na­tion­al Finance Cor­po­ra­tion, among many more.

The pub­li­ca­tion will be dis­trib­uted at the Inter­na­tion­al Media Cen­tre at the Seoul Sum­mit, but an elec­tron­ic edi­tion is avail­able now for down­load from the G20 Infor­ma­tion Cen­tre at <http://www.g20.utoronto.ca/newsdesk/seoul/>.

Efforts are under­way to pro­vide arti­cles in the lan­guages of the G20.

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For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Made­line Koch
Man­ag­ing Direc­tor
G20 Research Group
416–588-3833
In Seoul Nov 8 to 13: +82–010-8659–6542
g20@utoronto.ca
www.g20.utoronto.ca