WORLD_ SYRIA_ Refugees, Syria to overshadow economy at G20

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Refugees, Syria to overshadow economy at G20

Updated: 5:42 am, Saturday, 14 November 2015

Australia's effort to put economic growth at the heart of the G20 summit will be overshadowed by the refugee crisis and Syria.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday met in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has found herself at the heart of furious debate over Syria and the migrant flood caused by the conflict.

The two leaders agreed the solution to the Syrian crisis must be a political one.

Mr Turnbull described the Syrian situation as "absolutely catastrophic".

The German leader said European nations must move closer to a fairer distribution of refugees as "small steps" were taken towards a political solution.

Mr Turnbull, US President Barack Obama and other world leaders will gather in the ritzy Turkish resort city of Antalya - about 500 kilometres from Syria - on Sunday and Monday for the G20 summit.

Even economic chiefs admit the leaders' focus is drifting from the usual G20 agenda of jobs and growth.

"As the G20 leaders gather in Turkey this weekend, they will have on their minds heartbreaking images of displaced people fleeing countries gripped by armed conflict and economic distress," Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, said in a blog ahead of the summit.

"Migration is a global issue. We must all work together to address it," she wrote.

Turkey itself has taken in more than 2.2 million refugees from the crisis.

The final communique to be released on Monday is expected to mention refugees, as well as agenda issues including youth unemployment, shoring up the world's biggest banks and tackling multinational tax evasion.

Mr Turnbull said he was "overwhelmingly" seeking economic outcomes from the summit, building on the work of the 2014 Brisbane summit.

He admitted G20 member growth forecasts had been "scaled back" since that summit set a target of more than two per cent growth above the expected trajectory by 2018.

"But all of us have to remember our primary overwhelming commitment has to be to ensure there are high quality jobs, today and in the future, and we are pushing the envelope on innovation and technology," he said.

Mr Turnbull will also attend the APEC summit in Manila, where he will have his first bilateral meeting with Mr Obama, and the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur.

AAP

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