AFP - The G8 world powers threw the weight of the rich world behind Arab spring Friday demanding Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi resign and committing billions to the new democracies.
While the Declaration agreed by the leaders of the G8 did not figure on support for the Arab world, new Finance Minister of Tunisia, said the total package of grants and loans would amount to 40 billion dollars (28 billion euros).
"Democracy provides the best way for peace, stability, prosperity, shared growth and development", the leaders said after meeting with the Prime Ministers of the post-r?volutionnaire Tunisia and the Egypt seeking support for the reform.
Presidents and Prime Ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States met at the French station of Deauville on the second and final day of the annual Summit of the Group of eight.
Under the chairmanship of the host, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, they took a hard line with regimes resist pro-democracy revolts, warning of the Libya and violent Syria to put an end to the repression of their own peoples.
"We demand the immediate cessation of the use of force against civilians by the forces of Libyan regime and the cessation of incitement to hostility and violence against the civilian population," they said.
"Kadhafi and the Libyan Government has failed to fulfil their responsibility to protect the Libyan population and have lost any legitimacy." It has no future in a free and democratic Libya. "He must go," he warned.
Before the Summit, the Russia - who has criticized the air war NATO on the Gaddafi regime, has been seen as reluctant to take a line lasts, but it too hardened its position on the Libya at the meeting in Deauville.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, said: "Yes, we are ready to admit... it must go.". We believe that Colonel Gaddafi has confiscated legitimacy because of his actions... in fact we need to help him go. ?
But the Moscow delegation, stated that they still hoped a negotiated settlement, and senior advisor of Foreign Affairs Mikhail Margelov, said that the Russia had requested by the United States and the France to act as a mediator.
Western officials downplay this claim.
"None of the specific roles have been assigned." We do not create specific structures, "Chancellor Angela Merkel the Germany stated to journalists."
The Russia also insisted on the dilute an ultimatum to the Syria, forcing its partners to abandon a threat of sanctions of the Security Council of the United Nations for a more general warning "measures".
"We call on the Syrian leaders to immediately stop using force and intimidation against the Syrian people," the G8 said, even though troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad dispersed a new series of demonstrations in Damascus.
President Barack Obama said us after talks with Sarkozy that "we have made progress on our Libya campaign" - referring to air strikes of NATO in support of rebel forces--and promised: "We are joined in the determination to complete the work."
With the popular revolts sweeping the region, the G8 had to commits billions in aid to help the Tunisia and the Egypt along the road to democracy after their anti-Government uprisings success earlier this year.
The two economies have been hard hit by the tumultuous events of January and February and the Egypt wants to between 10 and 12 billion dollars in aid in the middle of next year, Tunisia 25 billion over the next five years.
"What President Sarkozy announced is a global package of 40 billion for the region." This package has not been broken down by country, "the Tunisia the Minister of finance Jalloul Ayed said after Arab and African leaders met the G8."
Ayed said foreign and Finance Ministers of the region would meet before July to shoot the program - designed to kickstart development and democratic anchoring reform economic - more in detail.
The G8 leaders agreed a statement supporting a limited role of Government in the policy of the Internet and to agree on the revitalization of the global nuclear safety standards in the wake of the devastating Japan nuclear tragedy triggered a tsunami.
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