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Preparations are under way for tomorrow’s G-20 financial summit taking place at the National Building Museum (401 F Street NW) in the Penn Quarter. It all started on October 22 when President Bush announced he was inviting leaders from 20 nations to meet November 15 to discuss possible solutions to the global financial crisis along with the heads of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. President-elect Barack Obama was invited to attend but declined opting to have surrogates meet with country delegations on his behalf.
Will we get a fresh look at regulating and monitoring the global financial markets? We’ll have to wait the weekend to find out.
For a news/press release link round up and photos of exterior preparations, read past the break. Local road closures, parking restrictions and Metro closing are shown below.
District Announces Parking Restrictions and Road Closures for Weekend G20 Summit [DC Government]
Judiciary Square Metrorail station closed Saturday for G20 Summit [WMATA – Metrorail]
Americas
- Global Deals in Works On Eve of G-20 Summit [WaPo – Washington, DC]
- Summit of G20 nations is unlikely to produce quick solutions [LA Time – Los Angeles, CA]
- That G-20 Show [Wall Street Journal – New York, NY]
- President Bush Discusses Financial Markets and World Economy [The White House – Washington, DC]
- IMF Urges World Leaders to Counter Global Slowdown [International Monetary Fund – Washington, DC]
- Video: World Bank President Robert Zoellick – Message for G-20 [World Bank – Washington, DC]
- G20 summit may trigger another global rate cut [Financial Post – Canada]
- G-20: Shaping a new world order [CNNMoney.com]
- Entenda o que está em jogo na reunião do G20 [O Globo – Rio de Janiero, Brazil]
- Cristina llegó a Washington para la cumbre del G-20 sin respaldos y en medio de críticas [La Nacion – Buenos Aires, Argentina]
Western Eurozone
- Signs of turmoil grow as G20 looms [Financial Times – United Kingdom]
- In depth: G20 [Financial Times – United Kingdom]
- G20 urged to reject protectionism [BBC – United Kingdom]
- España también invita a ir a Washington [ELPAÍS.com – Madrid, Spain]
- La presse internationale sceptique sur l’issue du G20 [Le Monde – Paris, France]
- Dutch PM to attend G20 [Radio Netherlands – The Netherlands]
Asia/Australia
- What’s in store for the Washington Summit [The Hindu – Chennai, India]
- We Cannot Afford To Fail [The Times of India – India]
- Rudd heads to Washington for G20 summit [Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney, Australia]
- Chinese President leaves for Washington to attend G20 summit on financial crisis [China View News – Xinhua News – Beijing, China]
- Japan will push for better surveillance of financial sector at G20 summit [The Mainichi Daily News – Japan]
Middle East/Africa
- G20 Summit likely to maintain status quo [Business Daily Africa – Nairobi, Kenya]
- Africa: How South Africa Should Handle G20 Summit [AllAfrica.com -Trans-African Bureaus]
- Leaders gather for G20 summit [Al Jazeera – Qatar]
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Sidewalks blocked. I live on 5th Street and building management tells us we have to use the alley door. The dry cleaner has a sign up saying it will be closed due to “government activities.”
This strikes me as an odd place to host 20 world leaders. They have to secure an area right in the middle of a city. Is the refrigerator empty at Camp David?
The National Building Museum is a gorgeous venue. As a stand alone building on its own block, NBM is straight forward to secure.
If you have never been inside, here’s a 360 tour of the Great Hall:
http://www.nbm.org/about-us/historic-building/360-degree-tour.html
I live in Mass Court facing Fourth St. I received a letter from management notifying us of a national event, that there would be police checkpoints and cars could be searched, but that we could still access entrances and garages with proof of residence. Also, those of us facing Fourth St must not open our windows at any point on Saturday. I assume that’s code for “you’ll be sniped.”
If they do everything at Camp David the short-hand gets awfully confusing. Camp David is all about an Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement. It’s been used, you can’t go back there for anything but weekedn mountainbiking. Annapolis got the latest Israeli-Palestinian program. Watergate gets Nixon et al. Breton Woods got this type of thing 65 years ago.
So if some ground breaking agreement were to be reached (won’t happen with this lame duck, but for the sake of arguement) what would it be called? The Building Museum Construction? The Penn Quarter Drawing?
I’ve never been a fan of the hypersecuritization of DC for these types of events, but a three block perimeter around the Building Museum is completely ridiculous. On top of the Obama transition HQ security perimeter, we are having significant portions of the public spaces (and now a metro stop) in our neighborhood taken away by the govt with no compensation. There was a time when talk of closing PA Ave in front of the White House was considered un-American. Sad to see how far we’ve come…
The G20 Summit “inconvenienced” the neighborhood for 24 hours (or less). My out-of-town visitor and I thought it was pretty cool to be “so close” to 20 world leaders and having caught a glimpse of the ongoing motorcades, a Free Tibet and the Prop 8 protests.
Oh, I heart DC.
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Does anyone know if the sidewalks will be open? That is my dog walking route.