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LONDON (Reuters) - Following are highlights of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck's news conference after the G20 summit.

MERKEL ON MARKETS

"We have agreed to set up a clear financial market architecture."

MERKEL ON FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE, REGULATION

"We have agreed to set up a clear financial market architecture."

"We have taken an important step toward creating order in an area in the world where there was previously no order."

MERKEL ON OVERALL RESULTS

"All our work is aimed at making sure that such a crisis is not repeated."

"This is a victory for global cooperation .. it is a victory for reason that the things that got us into this crisis are not allowed to be repeated. That is what I wanted."

MERKEL ON TAX HAVEN LIST

"We have succeeded, with British help, to convince everyone that such a list is possible."

STEINBRUECK ON STIMULUS

"It is good there will be no obligations on a state to launch further stimulus programs."

STEINBRUECK ON DERIVATIVES

"It is not unimportant that derivatives should be increasingly standardized."

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