Special Report:Global Financial Crisis
ROME, Nov. 10 (Chinese media) -- The global financial crisis
is an "extraordinary opportunity to reflect on what we have done wrong,"
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told his Italian counterpart
Giorgio Napolitano in Rome on Monday.
Lula added that the crisis was a chance "to create a
new world order in which human beings, workers, social development and cultural,
scientific and technological production are the driving forces of the economy
rather than financial speculation," according to Italian News Agency ANSA.
Napolitano underlined the importance of involving
emerging countries in addressing the crisis ahead of a summit by the Group of 20
(G20) most powerful economies due to take place in Washington on Saturday.
"I am sure that emerging countries like Brazil can
make a significant contribution to the creation of concerted and incisive
policies on the international level," he said.
Lula said he would attend the signing of a number of
strategic business deals between Italy and Brazil during his four-day visit to
Rome, adding that trade between the two countries had doubled in the last five
years and was now worth eight billion dollars.
The Brazilian president is due to meet Italian
Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday and will be received by Pope Benedict XVI
on Thursday.
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