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Posted: **Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:03 pm**

Here's what I've been seeing in Spain these past two days. There's a European Union/Asia summit going on in Helsinki, Finland. All the heavy hitters from Asia are there - Chinese president, prime ministers of Japan and South Korea. (Not sure about Putin.) Burma is there as well. A "special Case" for the purposes of this meeting. Asia is wholly represented. The European big guns are there: Chirac, Merkel and on. And NO TONY BLAIR! (As you know he's in Israel.) The United Kingdom is represented by.........John Prescott! Now this is all very newsworthy for a host of reasons. But I've seen no coverage worth the word in Britain. Earlier this evening I read this in the Guardian. <blockquote>Quote:<hr>12.30pm Stop feuding or lose election, Prescott tells Labour  Matthew Tempest and agencies Monday September 11, 2006 Guardian Unlimited The deputy prime minister, John Prescott, today called for an end to public feuding over the Labour leadership, warning that the party would lose the next election if the infighting did not stop. His first public intervention in the row between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown came as a survey of Labour MPs found that fewer than half thought Mr Brown would increase Labour's appeal to middle-income, middle-class voters in the south of England. Among the 75 Labour MPs taking part in the survey, just 45% believed that Mr Brown would strengthen the party's chances of attracting middle-England voters, against 39% who felt he would make no difference and 15% who thought he would weaken its position. Speaking from Finland this morning, where he is attending a climate change conference, Mr Prescott called for a return to "normal business" as the PM prepared to address the TUC conference tomorrow. Mr Prescott said: "After last week, I think everybody will agree jaw jaw is better than war war."<hr></blockquote> <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourleadership/story/0,,1869845,00.html">politics.guardian.co.uk/l...45,00.html</a> It seems to me that some heavyweight security issues are being hammered-out in Helsinki, as in bygone eras, and ahead of the big showpiece at the United Nations. And it seems to me that the ruling family don't want the British people to know about it. Any thoughts?

Posted: **Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:07 pm**

..doesn't look as though anyone is meant to know about it. I wasn't able to find a single 'news' item about it on google. According to the following list, Putin wasn't invited..... <a href="http://www.asem6.fi/what_is_asem/FAQ/en_GB/FAQ/">Who participates in ASEM?</a> ASEM participants are Austria, Belgium, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, European Commission, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, the Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom and Vietnam. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Summit-Climate-Change.html">from the NYTimes:</a> The leaders also agreed to admit Pakistan, India and Mongolia to their club, along with Romania and Bulgaria once they join the EU in 2007 or 2008. The EU has strong trade ties with Japan, China and South Korea, the three Asian economic powers, but Europe's trade with Southeast Asia has been stagnant. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=1tal>1 tal</A> at: 9/11/06 7:15 pm

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