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Article: G8: OVER-EXPLOITED SOUTH SARDINIA A TEST CASE FOR G8 MEETING
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- July 6, 2009
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Sabina Zaccaro
Inter Press Service English News Wire
07-06-2009
ROME, Jul. 6, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Although the G8 leaders summit
has been moved to the quake-hit city of L'Aquila, more than a dozen
civil society organizations are staying on in Sardinia in support
of a region hit by unemployment and environmental contamination.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi moved the G8 meeting
from Sardinia to L'Aquila, north-east of Rome, after a major
earthquake almost destroyed L'Aquila and surroundings in April,
killing 300 people. The government explained the relocation as "an
act of solidarity, and attention to the region's population."
But 17 national, international and regional NGOs that had ...
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