important facts about G20
Answers
Answer:
1) Although it's known as the G20, Gordon Brown has invited delegates from countries outside the elite club, including the Netherlands and Spain.
2) Barack Obama will be staying at Winfield House, the official residence of the US ambassador, which was built in the 1930s with money inherited from Franklin Winfield Woolworth who made his fortune founding the now defunct retail chain.
3) Carla Bruni, the wife of President Nicholas Sarkozy of France, will not accompany her husband on the trip. But she will entertain Michelle Obama at a separate event in Strasbourg on Saturday.
4) The Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh are hosting a reception at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening, ahead of the No 10 dinner. Every country attending the G20 is allowed to send up to five people.
5) The US president will be flown from Stansted to London in the helicopter Marine One. But he is also bringing across a number of decoy helicopters, to confuse potential terrorists.
It represents just over 80 percent of the world's gross domestic product, three-quarters of global trade, and around two- thirds of the world's population.