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G-20 Summit: One Eye On Terror And The Other On Economics – OpEd ( Source- Eurasia Review / Author- Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi)

Image credits- MEA Official gallery, Govt of India Source- Eurasia Review Author- Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi The barbaric attacks in Paris have led to discussions at the G-20 Summit in Antalya which have been more political than economic. Antalya, with its strict security, was packed with political and business delegations. Despite the summit’s economic focus, politics has forced itself into the discussions. The Paris attacks shocked the world only a few days before the summit; they showed yet again that terrorism has no respect for either religious or cultural boundaries. Saudi Arabia has always warned against terrorism, and the words of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman at the conference left no room for doubt or indecision. “We have suffered in the Kingdom from terrorism,” he said. “We have been determined to fight it rigorously and decisively, and to address its intellectual perceptions, especially those that take from the teachings of Islam a ju

CHINESE MEDIA’S PERSPECTIVE OF G20 FINANCE MINISTERS AND CENTRAL BANK GOVERNORS’ MEETING – ANALYSIS (SOURCE- EURASIA REVIEW, AUTHOR- NURZHANAT AMETBEK)

Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Various Authors Source- The Eurasia Review Author- Nurzhanat Ametbek Turkey hosted the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors for the first time since it assumed the rotating presidency of the elite global club. Officials gathered in Ä°stanbul, Turkey from February 9-10 to discuss solutions to the debt crisis in Greece and ways to push forward faltering global growth. The meeting of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors coincides with a time of global economic suffering and hardship that is characterized by uneven growth of the major economies, monetary policy differentiation, and the Greek question in Europe. During the meeting, G20 members tried to come up with a coordinated plan to reverse the current downturn of the global economy, pledging to continue to take action to boost economic growth. Nonetheless, the G20 members still hold divergent opinions on various issues including what kind of policy tools ar