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15/11/2012
Fermanagh Could Host 2013 G8 Summit
Northern Ireland may be considered as the location for next year’s G8 summit.
County Fermanagh newspaper the Impartial Reporter claims the five-star Loch Erne Golf Resort is being considered as a potential host for the summit.
The newspaper has reported the hotel may be selected because it is set on a peninsula.
The annual G8 summit is a forum which brings together the governments of the world’s largest economies: Great Britain, the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Japan and Canada.
The Impartial Reporter says Fermanagh could be the location for the June 2013 meeting. Last year’s summit took place at Camp David in Maryland in the USA.
The last time the gathering was held in the UK was in Scotland in 2005 at the Gleneagles golf course.
The G8 summits are regularly met with mass protests from international food aid and anti-capitalist campaigners, who view the meetings with cynicism and suspicion.
Other critics of the G8 summit claim the absence of countries like Brazil, China and India is not in keeping with the principal that the meeting brings together the world’s largest economies.
(IT)
County Fermanagh newspaper the Impartial Reporter claims the five-star Loch Erne Golf Resort is being considered as a potential host for the summit.
The newspaper has reported the hotel may be selected because it is set on a peninsula.
The annual G8 summit is a forum which brings together the governments of the world’s largest economies: Great Britain, the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Russia, Japan and Canada.
The Impartial Reporter says Fermanagh could be the location for the June 2013 meeting. Last year’s summit took place at Camp David in Maryland in the USA.
The last time the gathering was held in the UK was in Scotland in 2005 at the Gleneagles golf course.
The G8 summits are regularly met with mass protests from international food aid and anti-capitalist campaigners, who view the meetings with cynicism and suspicion.
Other critics of the G8 summit claim the absence of countries like Brazil, China and India is not in keeping with the principal that the meeting brings together the world’s largest economies.
(IT)
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