DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the world must come together to chart an interconnected course to defeat the economic crisis.
Warning of a rising threat of protectionism, Brown told The Daily Telegraph Saturday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that history can provide "no clear map" the current economic crisis.
"This is the first financial crisis of the global age," Brown said. "And there is no clear map that has been set out from past experience to deal with it. There is implicit protectionism I'm afraid in what is happening at the moment."
But, he said, "This is not like the 1930s -- the world can come together," suggesting the G20 meeting of the world's leading economic nations set for April in London would be an the ideal opportunity for all the nations to focus on "interdependent" issues.
The G20 meeting would also see Barack Obama making his first European trip as U.S. President, the newspaper noted.
