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G20 SUMMIT
East Oregonian
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Germany hosts ‘difficult’ G-20 talks on trade, climate
Bodo Marks/dpa via AP
Police detain a demonstrator watched by journalists
during a protest on the first day of the G-20 summit in
Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday.
Clashes leave dozens of
officers, activists injured
John MacDougall/Pool Photo via AP
From left: U.S. President Donald Trump, China’s President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri and Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull turn around for photog-
raphers at the start of the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, northern Germany, on Friday.
By GEIR MOULSON
Associated Press
HAMBURG, Germany
— Talks on global trade at the
Group of 20 summit proved
very difficult and differences
on climate change also were
clear, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said Friday,
as police and protesters
clashed throughout the day
in the summit’s host city of
Hamburg.
Merkel told leaders of
the G-20 economic powers
that they must be prepared
to make compromises as she
worked toward a summit
outcome that everyone
present could accept.
That is a challenging task
at a time when President
Donald Trump’s “America
First” rhetoric and decision
last month to withdraw from
the Paris accord against
climate change have caused
widespread concern.
Negotiators “still have a
great deal of work ahead of
them” to formulate a passage
“The discussions
are very difficult,
I don’t want to
talk around that.”
— Angela Merkel,
Chancellor of Germany
on trade in the summit’s
closing
communique,
Merkel said after the first
day of meetings.
She added that most
participants called for “free
but also fair trade” and
underlined the significance
of the World Trade Orga-
nization, though she didn’t
specify which ones did not
support the trade language.
“The discussions are very
difficult, I don’t want to talk
around that,” Merkel said.
The German leader said
most summit participants
backed the Paris climate
accord. Speaking separately,
French President Emmanuel
Macron spoke of “the
common engagement which
we must take, we must
defend, at a moment when
it is called in question by
certain people.”
“It will be very interesting
to see how we formulate the
communique tomorrow and
make clear that, of course,
there are different opinions in
this area because the United
States of America regrettably
... wants to withdraw from the
Paris accord,” Merkel said.
Germany has been keen
to preserve the G-20’s tradi-
tion of making decisions
by consensus. Merkel has
rejected calls from some to
push for a strong “G-19”
statement — without the
U.S. — on climate change.
Opening
discussions
earlier in the day, Merkel
told fellow leaders that
there are “millions of people
following us with their
concerns, their fears and
their needs, who hope that
we can make a contribution
to solving the problems.”
The leaders did make a
joint statement on fighting
terrorism, an issue on which
there are few differences.
They called for ensuring that
there are “no ‘safe spaces’
for
terrorist
financing
anywhere in the world”
and pledged to work with
internet providers and app
administrators to combat
the web’s use for terror
propaganda and financing.
Merkel noted that the
countries at the summit
represent two-thirds of
the world’s population,
four-fifths of the globe’s
gross domestic product
and three-quarters of world
trade.
The G-20 comprises
Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
China, Germany, France,
Britain, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan, Canada, South
Korea, Mexico, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, South Africa,
Turkey, the United States
and the European Union.
Also attending are the
Netherlands, Norway, Spain,
Guinea, Senegal, Singapore
and Vietnam.
HAMBURG, Germany
(AP) — Anti-globalization
activists clashed violently
with police across the German
port city of Hamburg all day
Friday, setting cars ablaze,
throwing bottles and trying
to enter the convention center
where Group of 20 leaders
tackled topics like inter-
national terrorism, climate
change and trade issues.
Responding to a second
day of protests, police
ordered in more than 900
additional officers from
across the country to get the
clashes under control. At
least 196 police officers were
injured, dozens of activists
had to be taken to the hospital
and more than 70 protesters
were detained.
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel condemned the violent
protests as “unacceptable.”
“I have every under-
standing for peaceful demon-
strations,” Merkel said.
“But violent demonstrations
endanger human lives, they
endanger people themselves,
they put police officers and
security forces in danger, put
residents in danger, and so
that is unacceptable.”
Merkel thanked security
forces for their work as the
Group of 20 met behind a
heavy police presence in a
no-go zone that was off-limits
to most.
Thousands of officers in
full riot gear patrolled as many
as 30 different protest marches.
Most of the demonstrations
were peaceful and creative,
but some rioters threw gaso-
line bombs, iron rods and
cobble stones through the city.
As night fell, some lit fires
in the streets of the city’s
Schanzenviertel neighbor-
hood.
In the nearby St. Pauli
district, thousands of people
danced in the streets to techno
and live hip-hop music as the
international leaders of the
G-20 nations listened to a
classical concert at the city’s
philharmonic under heavy
police protection.
More than 20,000 officers
were on hand to guard the
Hamburg’s streets, skies and
waterways.
Police trucks blasted
protesters back with water
cannons, and officers physi-
cally dragged away a group
holding a sit-in at the entrance
to the summit grounds after
they jeered and yelled at a
convoy heading inside.
Violence seemed to be
escalating on Friday evening
as anti-globalization activists
forced their way into a closed
train station by bending
open the iron gates. Police
responded by deploying a
water cannon outside the
Landungsbruecke station.
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