Fri, July 10, 2009
L'AQUILA, Italy, July 10 (Xinhua) -- World leaders at the Group of Eight (G8) summit ended their three-day gathering on Friday with a promise to mobilize 20 billion U.S. dollars to help fight world hunger.
"Working with the G8, African and European countries and multinational bodies, we had the satisfaction of increasing the 15 billion to 20 billion dollars over thee years," Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berluscon, the host, told a press conference concluding the summit in the central Italian town of L'Aquila.
Food security was the last major item on the three-day agenda of the world leaders, who also focused on the economic crisis and the global fight against climate change.
