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The Prime Minister has encouraged entrepreneurs and businessmen to embrace the wealth of opportunities that will emerge from increased globalisation over the next 20 years and to use their energy to promote social action.

Gordon Brown has delivered a statement to Parliament explaining the measures agreed at the G20 financial summit on how to help the global economy through the current downturn and into a period of recovery.

Gordon Brown has outlined his views on how best to tackle the world economic downturn at a press conference today with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission.

The Prime Minister has hailed the “historic” agreement at the G20 summit to push ahead with reforms aimed at reversing the current global economic downturn.

Gordon Brown has said that the nations of the world must show they can work together by coming up with a joint solution to the economic crisis and successfully concluding a new world trade deal.

Gordon Brown has called for “urgent” international action to tackle the current financial crisis and prevent the world from sliding into deeper economic trouble.

Gordon Brown has said the UK is ready to support the deployment of extra United Nations peacekeepers to prevent a “human catastrophe” in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Gordon Brown met the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, in 10 Downing Street today.