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Italy hopes island G8 will be free from violence
Reuters
Friday, Dec 05, 2008
Italy is hosting next year's Group of Eight summit
on an island off Sardinia, hoping there will not be any of the
violence that dogged the last gathering of the world's richest
nations on its soil seven years ago.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said memories of
the fatal shooting of a demonstrator and bloody clashes at the
Genoa G8 summit in 2001 were in everyone's mind as the government
prepares to organise security at next year's meeting -- to be
held on July 7-9 on the Maddalena archipelago.
Italy holds the presidency of the G8 in 2009.
"Given the traumatic experience of Genoa ... for us the
problem of security is a real one," Berlusconi -- who was
also in charge of Italy's government during the Genoa summit --
told a press conference.
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"The previous government picked Maddalena thinking, I believe,
that this location would be ideal to avoid a repeat of what happened
in Genoa," he said.
"I am fairly certain that (the measures taken) will bring
total security to the site and the island itself," he added,
saying he would hold a meeting on security at the summit next
week.
Three days of clashes at the Genoa summit were among the most
violent at any meeting of the club of rich nations, which are
regularly dogged by protests by anti-globalisation groups and
leftist demonstrators.
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