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G8 leaders agree to curb payment to terrorists' ransoms

(Xinhua)

19:12, June 18, 2013

LOUGH ERNE, United Kingdom, June 18 (Xinhua) -- G8 leaders agree to curb payment to terrorists' ransoms leaders have refused to kowtow to terrorist hostage-takers by agreeing not to make payment of ransoms, British Prime Minister David Cameron's office said Tuesday.

The world leaders meeting at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland hope that companies would follow suit in refusing to pay for the release of abductees.

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