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2008-10-28 “I hope the decision will be taken soon. It won’t help to have it in six months, or six weeks. Rather, we need it in the coming six days,”
-- Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, after meeting Pakistan’s president Asif Ali Zardari and foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi
2008-07-11 In Brussels, Belgium a donor conference for Kosovo saw pledges of a total of 1.2 billion euro.
-- According to Pierre Mirel, European Commission director for Western Balkans

The EU and its member countries pledged a total of 800 million euro and the US 225 million euro. Germany pledged 100 million euro, the UK 28 million pounds sterling, Switzerland 47 million euro, Luxembourg 25.5 million euro, Italy 13 million euro, France 2.3 million euro, Slovenia 500 000 euro and Bulgaria 500 000 euro.

The George Soros Foundation pledged 500 000 euro in aid for the Roma community in Kosovo.
2008-06 The top ten gold holders are US, 8,133.5 tons, accounting for 27.28 percent of the world’s total, followed by Germany, 3,417.3 tons or 11.46 percent, while IMF is third with 3,217.3 tons or 10.79 percent. The rest on the list are France, Italy, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands, China and European Central Bank (ECB).
-- According to statistics released by IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS)
2008-04 France and Germany blocked the Membership Action Plans for Georgia and Ukraine.
2008-01-17 "The international community of nations can't and won't allow nuclear weapons technology in this region [= Persian Gulf] to be developed."
-- Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister Germany, in Vienna ahead of a meeting with UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei
2007-12-17 Ninety international delegations from Israel, Palestine, United States, EU, Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Nations, and other world's powers are attended the one-day Conference of Donors for a Palestinian State in Paris to mobilize political support and to agree on an aid package worth billions of dollars to stabilise the Palestinian economy and give political impetus to the newly relaunched peace process with Israel.

Global donors pledge 7.4 bln US dollars for Palestinians.
2007-12-06 “Clearly, there is expanding demand for these products, and a closely associated desire on the part of banks, including non-Islamic banks, to provide Islamic financial services… The broadening appeal of Islamic finance is also evident in the move by large international banks and other private sector financial institutions to provide Islamic financial services.”
-- Malcolm Knight, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, addressed the Islamic Financial Services Board Forum in Frankfurt, Germany
2007-10-29 In Germany, stones and bottles began flying as Turkish ultra-nationalists surrounded a Kurdish cultural center in Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
2007-10-27 In Germany, Kurds demonstrated peacefully against a possible Turkish invasion of northern Iraq.
2007-10-01 The United States military created AFRICOM and based it, for the time being, in Stuttgart, Germany

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