Text: Obama Highlights Achievements of G8 Summit
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The President said that, at the conclusion of the summit, the world leaers in attendance had made significant headway on ecomnit recovery, nuclear non-proliferation, climate change, and food security.
Mr. Obama also declared that full economic recovery is still “a ways off,” although “we appear to have averted global collapse.”
He also discussed issues with Iran, his meeting with the pope, and his stopover in Africa.
The full transcript of Mr. Obama’s press conference on July 10, as released by the White House, can be found below:
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