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Article: (3rd LD) Seoul selected as venue of next year's G20 summit.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has picked Seoul as the venue of next year's Group of 20 (G20) summit and will officially announce the decision next week, government officials said Friday. Leaders of the G20 countries agreed at their September summit in Pittsburgh to meet again next year in Canada in June and in South Korea in November. The South Korean summit will be the fifth after the first in Washington in November 2008 and the second in London in April 2009. Following the Pittsburgh summit, several South Korean cities, including Seoul, Busan, Incheon and Jeju, have competed to become the host of the November meeting. "Seoul is quite likely the location of G20 ...