VINA DEL MAR, Chile (Reuters) - Center-left world leaders including Britain's Gordon Brown and Brazil's Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva on Saturday called for global financial reforms at next week's G20 summit, but the U.S. warned against
over-regulation.
Meeting in the Chilean coastal resort of Vina del Mar in a pre-G20 warm-up, Brown, Lula, host Chilean President
Michelle Bachelet and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said deep financial reforms were vital to
avert a another financial meltdown.
"The whole world is paying the price for the collapse of a reckless venture of those that have turned the world economy
into a gigantic casino," Lula told fellow leaders in a roundtable discussion.
"We are rejecting blind faith in the markets."
Brown said the G20 summit in London had to focus on concrete ways to revive growth and create jobs while protecting the
environment and the world's poor.
"We have got to be very clear that banking cannot be unsupervised any more; there's got to be cross border
supervision," he said, calling for an overhaul of the system of international finance and coordinated policies to help
underpin sustainable growth.
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U.S. President Barack Obama has called on fellow G20 leaders to agree on immediate action to help boost the struggling
global economy,
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billion expansion of trade financing and agree upon a long-delayed global trade pact.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told the meeting overlooking Chile's Pacific coast the United States was eager to
coordinate international policy to reduce systemic risk to global markets, but warned over-regulation could hurt
healthy markets.
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"We should not over-react. It is not a choice of markets or governments," Biden said. "A free market still needs to be
able to function."
Thousands of people marched in Britain, France, Germany and Italy on Saturday to protest the economic crisis and urge
world leaders to act to reduce poverty, create jobs and avert climate change at the G20 summit.
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"We have to democratize the economy, globalization and the financial system. How to do this? We already know: with
information, transparency and responsibility," Zapatero said.
(With reporting by Rodrigo Martinez, Antonio de la Jara, Patricia Velez and Adrian Croft in Vina del Mar; editing by
Todd Eastham)
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