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Price said the G8 made a strong link between the emissions-reduction goal and developing a new generation of environmental technologies.

"I have no doubt that, I don't know when but in the near future, G8 will be extended, " he said.

But the G8 did not address the question of how those people will be kept on drugs indefinitely.

I partly agree with him: China should be invited into the G8 to help restore the stability of the global financial markets.

Any plan to expand the G8 to include China was doomed, he said, as there was "no chance of agreement on enlarging" the group.

And it is all the direct result of the G8's dwindling importance in the global economy.

But he points out: "This is not just a question for the G8 but a question for China as well. "

G8 leaders have said the group wants to be inclusive and bring other nations into discussions on global issues .

Mr President, I would like to start by thanking you for your leadership in making health and infectious diseases one of the G8 priorities.

The G8 is now buffeted by forces and policies from elsewhere; it is no longer the master of its own destiny.

Angela Merkel has good reason to be pleased with the outcome of the meeting of the Group of Eight leading countries she chaired this week.

After all, it was only eight years ago, in 2002, that Brazil attended its first G8 conference, and that was just as an observer.

At the moment, none of them is in the G8 club, and only China has a spot on the UN Security Council.

Simply suggest that world governance is slipping away from the G20, G7, G8 or other bodies in which Europeans may hog up to half the seats.

Meanwhile, mention then of structured investment vehicles or Northern Rock to a G8 leader would have been met with a blank stare.

Here, above all, the rising powers do not feel they are mere guests, as at meetings of the Group of Eight leading high-income countries.

President Bush blocked past G8 efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions because those limits did not apply to India and China.

A: G8 is a cooperation mechanism for developed countries, to which China does not belong.

If the G8 expands to the G13 and Korea fails to join the new society, Korea's status is bound to fall in terms of the others.

"In 1975, the G8 came out to promote its own interests, those of advanced countries, " he says.

Aid organizations have been calling on the G8 to live up to past pledges of food and development assistance.

He was a member of the G8 Mexico Global Health Security Working Group and chaired the Chemical Events Working Group for two years.

The exclusive nature of the G7 and G8 cannot be overcome just with economic power.

This growth is faster than that of any other G8 country.

As regards the G20, it would have been more efficient to kick Canada and Italy out of the G8 and invite China and India to replace them.

Even at this early stage, before there has been a single G8 summit held since the G20 one sprung to life, three conclusions are clear.

Even if the G8 leaders were to vote this week to offer Canada's place to China, it is by no means certain that Beijing would accept.

He did his best not to look smug when he hosted world leaders at a recent G8 summit in Deauville.

As Mr Sarkozy's luck would have it, in November France takes over the 12-monthly presidency of the G20, and in 2011 adds that of the G8.

As part of his work with ONE, Bono has lobbied U. S. Presidents and Congressional leaders, along with the heads of many other G8 nations.

The plan is that this stimulus will pass in June, allowing the Diet to be dissolved and Mr Aso to attend the July G8 summit in Italy.

"Most questions can no longer be solved by G8 nations alone, " she said.

Indeed, in this respect it may not differ very much from the G8, which had a habit of making grandiloquent commitments and not following up.

The comments, made within earshot of reporters, come in the run-up to the G8 summit in Scotland later this week.

Even before the conflict in Georgia, he was arguing for throwing Russia out of the Group of Eight and forming a new League of Democracies.

But these days, Canada is looking increasingly like the dirty one of G8.

The new push for tighter financial regulations was the main achievement of a weekend of G8 and G20 summits.

The behind-the-scenes grumbling has gone as far as suggestions that Italy could be pushed out of the G8 or any successor group.

Food security is today hotly debated among the Group of Eight leading industrialised countries.

The G8 is not the only global club that looks old and impotent (see article).

At the least, he says, the G8 leaders could have promised to treat cuts eventually agreed under UN auspices as legally binding.

The Group of Eight meetings of 2008 and 2009 cited this as an option to be further explored, but failed to act.

However, G8 members do not appear to have reached a consensus on some issues.

Action is needed now to avoid such an outcome, and the place is the Group of Eight summit starting today in Italy.

The leaders of the two countries also exchanged views on the dialogue between the leaders of G8 and five developing nations including China.

As well, we are mindful of the upcoming G8 summit in Italy on June 12-13, and the potential for USD weakness to be cited as a concern.

The G20 is meant to be a supercharged version of the G8 - which is the group of seven richest nations with an extra place set for Russia.

In May, the Group of Eight promised $20bn of loans to Tunisia and Egypt over the next three years.

The G8 declaration is a significant contribution both to the U. N. negotiations as well as to the major economies process.

The Group of Eight rich countries' meeting in St Petersburg last weekend raised fresh hopes that the round could be completed.

As the G8 prepares to meet, Juliet Michaelson argues that world leaders should turn away from the siren song of limitless economic growth.

And I can confirm that the G8 finance ministers have agreed a 100 percent debt cancellation for the heavily-indebted poor countries.

Environmental activists are sharply criticizing the G8 climate goals for failing to set hard numerical targets for carbon reduction.

Also, a search for documents talking about G8 countries would return the document due to a match on Germany, Russia, and Italy.

As the old- line "Rich -country Club" , the Group of Eight(G8) has been influencing the global politics and economy behind the scene.

Now would also be an appropriate time to strengthen the rich-country G7, which excludes Russia, at the expense of the G8, which includes it.

Leaders of the G8 developed nations wound up talks in Italy Friday with a pledge of $20 billion to boost food supplies in poor nations.

Mexico offered to host the next round of talks between the G8 and emerging developing world economies in 2006.

Similar worries will be at the top of the agenda when the leaders of the Group of Eight meet next month in Osaka, Japan.

Being up against the challenge and uncertainty of globalization, china should considerate affiliating "G8" carefully.

He and his fellow G8 leaders are also scheduled to discuss other health-related issues, including proposals to strengthen health systems.

At last weekend's meeting of G-8 Finance Ministers in Osaka, Japan, Henry Paulson repeated his support for a stronger dollar.

The Group of Eight nations, which once imagined it could serve as a global directoire, has been emptied of significant meaning by the G20.

LEADERS of the G8 group of rich countries gather in Muskoka, a Canadian holiday resort, for a two-day summit starting on Friday June 25th.

Another objection, a variant on the " collegiality " theme, is that the G8 has been a community of values.

But some now believe there ought to be a review of the G8 format.

The two developments, in only the first day of meetings, shows mixed results for President Obama in his first G8 summit.

Those close to him say that he is set on attending the G8 summit in early June and the European Council meeting a fortnight later.

But as the G8 summit gets under way, not all the recent economic developments have been bad.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Monday the main challenges facing the G8 summit are of special importance to Africa.

Then-foreign affairs minister David Emerson attended in Mr. Harpers place, but the decision left Mr. Harper in a minority among G8 leaders.

As for the G8, observers were keen to point out that it would retain discussion on global security.

'I would like to move forward during the G-8 so Doha can be on the agenda in November, ' Mr. Lamy said.

'An opportunity for a frank conversation with Vladimir Putin' that's how Tony Blair describes the G8 Summit.

A larger G8 will not automatically lick inflation, a better World Food Programme would not stop hunger.

Of course the G-8 and the permanent membership of the UN Security Council need to be expanded to reflect this change.

With the summit theme "Growth and Responsibility" , G8 leaders will discuss global warming and African development among other hot issues.

The GAVI Alliance and G8 leaders have proposed including pneumococcal vaccines as part of an AMC pilot run.

The information on this page provides a snapshot of the main infectious disease issues, and the impact the G8 has had on them.

Even the G8 members that are enthusiastically embracing ambitious targets are struggling to cut their emissions.

Agriculture and food security have become "the core of the international agenda" , as the G8 called it.

Germany is mounting the biggest security operation in post war history to protect the G8 summit in two weeks' time.

Democracy was the hallmark of G8 talks with several leaders from sub-Saharan Africa.

The G8 claimed to be an informal discussion club, but the G20 has usurped power over global financial governance.

However, G8 for the time being can remain the main forum for issues of international politics and security.

'G-8 members are already in a position to mobilize substantial bilateral support to scale-up this effort, ' they said.

The G8 meets July 8-10 in Italy but Eliasson said nothing will change and the topic of an alternative to the dollar is an old story.

If the G8 is serious about reaching an agreement on climate change, the Indians and Chinese should be there as equal partners.

Canada said today that it will urge the G8 meeting to reach a consensus that it is necessary to hold a Middle East peace conference.

That has helped food security emerge as a major focus for G-8 political leaders, who are concerned about social and political consequences.

That has helped food security emerge as a major focus for G-8 political leaders, who are concerned about social and political consequences.

Law enforcers argue that the operation is merely a response to the radicalisation of the anti-G8 scene.

Another step should be to broaden the G8 annual meetings to reflect current economic and geopolitical realities.

It is inevitable that the US will play a more central role in the management of an expanded G8.

The G8 failed to embrace the imperatives of global rebalancing after the Asian financial crisis.

Hence the talk of cutting the group down to size again, with a G13: the G8 plus China, India, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico.

The statement does not commit either developed or developing nations to the worldwide 50% cuts target by 2050 agreed by the G8 on Wednesday.

"For another country to organise the sherpa calls is just unprecedented. It's a nuclear option, " said one senior G8 member state official.

Five of the participants at Sarkozy's eG8 meeting in Paris are due to deliver a report to the G8 world leaders.

The G8 summit has opened the door to negotiations.

When G8 leaders meet in L'Aquila, a global, wide-ranging and ambitious post 2012 agreement in Copenhagen must be their top priority.

Without swift support from the rest of the G8 and the G20, the global fight against hunger could be put at great risk.

FORGET the formal agenda at this weekend's G8 summit, given over to energy security, infectious diseases and education.

The G8 nations, especially France and Italy, were criticised this month for reneging on their promises of increased aid to poor countries.

The meetings of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations can reinforce sound FDI policies at the highest level.

Aid groups have been calling on the G8 nations to honor past promises of food and development assistance.

The G8 rich countries and fastest emerging economies have agreed that they share a "joint vision" for action on climate change.

All this is far too technical for the G8 leaders to settle it at a summit.

The time has come for the G8 to move from rhetoric to action to guard our global trading and investment system.

But, in the absence of the large central banks, their ability to aid the dollar is limited.

Europe wants the G8 to commit to a goal of halving by mid-century the emissions that cause global warming, compared with 1990 levels.

Agriculture ministers from G8 nations are due to meet later this month in northern Italy.

And leaders from Haiti, Jamaica and Colombia will join G8 discussions on the illicit drug trade between Latin America and Africa.

In the current climate of food security concerns shared by all the G8 countries, many outside China remain wary.

Mr Pfaffenbach reiterated that Germany wanted to take the G8 "back to the roots" by focusing on global economic imbalances.

The compliance status shows the effectiveness of G8 as a international system.

But his move was a clever preemptive strike that threw other G8 leaders off balance.

In 2005, G8 leaders pledged to double aid and provide an additional $50 billion a year by 2010.

An effective global alert and response system has been developed with the support of G8 countries but requires further investment.

Pope Benedict issued a document to coincide with the G8, urging leaders to impose tough rules on the financial system.

The commitments are detailed and specific, and represent another step forward in G8 leadership on public health.

in recent weeks , the eu and the g8 have announced significant packages of debt relief and increased aid to the developing world.

Two years ago, G8 leaders promised to double financial assistance to Africa to $22 billion by the year 2010.

This change in the balance of world economic power has profound implications for the G8.

Soaring crude prices are expected to feature heavily in discussion at today's G8 heads of government meeting.

A number of G8 countries review transactions on grounds other than national security.

During their recent meeting at the G8 summit, the two leaders reaffirmed such consensus.

The G8 has warned that, without a doubling of spending by 2050, the global food crisis "will become structural" .

Leaders of the G8 club of rich countries met for the annual G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, presided over by Silvio Berlusconi.

As the date of the G8 summit drew closer, worries grew about its likely impact.

True, the G8's commitment to work towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050 fell short of what green activists wanted.

Analysts cited disappointing followthrough on past pledges as a source of concern.

News AU estimates the end of the Pontiac G8 will cost Holden more than $750 million in lost revenue.

The Russians were peeved when British, American and other G8 diplomats attended a gathering of opposition politicians in Moscow last week.

Bush emphasized his concern about carrying through on G8 funding pledges, especially for Africa.

Two years ago, at a similar gathering in Scotland, the G8 promised to boost aid to Africa to $50 billion per year by 2010.

It was to a large extent a G8 crisis.

The G8 has lost its monopoly as a forum for wrestling with global economic problems.

The G-8 will focus its meetings Friday on security and development, especially the health of mothers and children.

Climate change will be a major agenda on at the G8 summit Japan will be hosting in early July.

The UK government aims to reduce its contribution by 80 per cent and leaders of the other G8 nations have discussed following suit.

But the G8 leaves out developing nations with big populations and growing economies like China, India and Brazil.

While the problem of beef is not on the menu, so to speak, at the G8 environment meeting, reduction in consumption of resources is.

The "sherpa" calls led by the US were principally concerned with tomorrow's G8 meeting in L'Aquila, the Guardian's sources confirmed.

G8 leaders have been making plenty of positive noises.

G8 leaders are expected to address an array of political, security and economic issues when they meet for three days.

And at the recent Group of 8 summit, both China and France called for an end to the greenback as king of currencies.

Many have been saying lately that the new G20 format is replacing G8, making the latter redundant.

The G8 countries are absolute masters when it comes to obfuscation and manipulating data.

"You don't want [such] investments in Africa to undercut these efforts" by the G8 to promote good governance, Mr Kunder argued.

African leaders said ahead of today's talks that they would raise concerns about G8 backsliding .

Japan said Australia, South Korea and Indonesia had expressed support for the 50 per cent cuts agreed by the G8.

The most obvious weakness of the G8 is the lack of representation of the rising powers.

The G8 leaders said oil production and refining capacities should be increased in the short term while the underlying causes are examined.

But currencies are not even mentioned in the draft communique.

This critical problem illustrates the interface of the G8 themes.

"We cherish this format of G8. It is a very comfortable one for us, " says a foreign ministry official.

The G8 plan promised an escape from debt for some of the world's poorest countries.

The G8 said food security requires an open world market and trading system for food and agriculture.

The G8, a largely Western grouping, will continue its rapid decline into irrelevance.

Recently the G8 encouraged patent-holders to participate in the Medicines Patent Pool.

G8 countries' leaders have agreed to halve their greenhouse gas emission by 2050, sources with the summit said Tuesday.

Some G8 leaders would like that statement upgraded to "agree to halve emissions" , though the US has been reluctant to commit.

"In the short term, we are addressing the urgent needs of the most vulnerable people, " the G8 statement says.

The announcement followed talks between G8 leaders and leaders from Africa.

G8 leaders in Deauville also condemned Iran's nuclear program during their two-day meeting.

Take the annual G8 meetings of leading industrialised nations.

In mid-November France takes over the 12-month presidency of the G20, and in 2011 the G8 as well.

He will take his message to Japan, where leaders of the G8 grouping of major industrialised nations meet next month.

He rattles off a list of institutions that will have to change - the UN security council, the G8, the IMF and World Bank.

Now things have moved beyond that. But it is hard for the G8 to shake off its elitist baggage.

The G8 have already contributed enormously to polio eradication.

In recent years, the G8 has invited African leaders to join the summit for talks on development.

And visitors to next year's NATO and G8 summits will each be adding $1. 78 a night to city coffers, thanks to a new hotel tax.

Canada, Germany, UK and the USA and are acting on their pledges; the other G8 countries should take the opportunity to do the same.

The G20 is a chance to give China a bigger stake in global decision-making than was available in the small clubs of the G7 and G8.

In recent years, G8 and G20 nations have called for greater investment in smallholder farmers and herders in Africa and Asia.

Leaders of the G8 group of countries hold a summit in Deauville, France.

Oxfam's Lawson says the $50 billion the G8 promised in aid could be missed by as much as $30 billion and this could cost lives.

Some G8 members, not least Japan, the host, are wary of messing with the formula, which is designed to promote intimacy and candour.

The black mid-thigh jacket features an Italian flag and G8 logo on the right breast pocket.

Q: Will China send any officials to attend the G8 Finance Ministers' Meeting in Moscow?

Next year she will occupy the rotating presidency of both the EU and the G8 rich-country club.

Under her guidance, the G8 summit marks a turning point on tackling climate change.

Last week, leaders of nations from both the G8 and G20 gathered in Ontario Canada, for meetings in in Huntsville and Toronto.

We are promised great things on climate issues from the Group of Eight summit.

SAM AKAKI: Early this summer, we had a G8 meeting in Scotland.

The talks with the US and the EU provide an opportunity to compare notes before the G8 Summit in France later this month.

They project zero growth for America in 2009 and outright contraction for every other G7 country apart from Canada.

But that was days ago. Next came France, for the G8 summit, and he had other people to butter up.

G8 members also pledged to work toward an 80 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050.

G8 leaders say they are concerned that the steep rise in global food prices could push millions of people back into poverty.

Next week Mr Bush visits Germany again, en route to the G8 summit in St Petersburg.

The G20, which includes these two nations, supplanted the G8 as the world's most influential talking shop.

It seems likely the G8 promise was a mirage.

In the past, if G8 or G7 had a meeting, I thought that's thousands miles way. We read the news, that's all.

The African leaders are meeting with the G8 to review pledges made at the 2005 summit in Scotland.

Gordon Brown, Britain's finance minister, commissioned this review after the Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005.

"In the past a lot of time has been given to [other] topics, " he noted, adding that other subjects would remain on the agenda.

The dropping of the explicit target marks a further stage in the G8's failure to honour the commitments they made in Scotland at Gleneagles.

The G8 promised universal access to treatment by 2010, but as the numbers expand, it will become ever harder and more costly to achieve.

A report with action recommendations will be submitted to the G8 summit in Italy in 2009.

He will drop in on the G8 summit in France and also spend a few hours in Warsaw.

Heads of government from G8 nations will gather in northern Japan in July.

A rough count puts 85 per cent of the G8's gross domestic product in this organisation of weak rule.

The G8 will need a new role to embrace China, India, Brazil and perhaps South Africa.

"This has hardly helped foster dialogue, " a G8 diplomat said.

Protestors clashed with police in Germany ahead of next week's G8 summit.

The Group of Eight (G8) consists of the eight richest countries in the world.

However, Italians broke the rule on the summit of G8 held by themselves.

From 1976 to 2000, he was involved in an increasingly senior capacity in all G8 Summit Meetings.

The other Brics, who only get to the G8 as special guests, are understandably less enthusiastic.

Whether LIVE 8 will have an impact remains to be seen as the world's attention turns to the G8 summit, July 6-8 in Gleneagles, Scotland.

This is where G8 power can change the landscape - as you have already done with access to HIV treatment.

After a long struggle, all of the G-8 nations have finally accepted the two degree goal.

They must follow up where the G8 left an incomplete job.

At L'Aquila there was also much talk about the future of the G8.

Price said Australia, Indonesia and South Korea will be invited to join in the talks with the G8 and G5 leaders.

In 2008, the G8 must learn to live with a new world order.

Population ageing is on every agenda, from G8 economic conferences to NATO summits.

Q: G8 Summit will be convened late this month in France. Has China been invited?

Russia is the only member of the G8 or G20 outside the WTO.

How can we explain that Russia, which is behind Spain and Brazil in GDP, is a member of the G8?

The shift from the G7 and G8 to the G20, at the peak of the crisis, symbolised that transformation.

Only half of the OECD and G8 countries had ratified the convention by June 2007.

At the same time, the G8 called for an end to violence in Syria and Yemen.

World Bank President to G8: 'World Entering a Danger Zone'

Others are desperate to do the same, and are appealing for the promised G8 help.

While the G8 was often seen as too unwieldy to take effective decisions, the G20 is likely to prove even more painstaking.

The G8 and EU want the world to set 2C as a ceiling by 2050, but China is sceptical.

They are not the Group of Seven - the club of western powers and Japan - or the G8 (the G7 plus Russia).

The EU should promote work on tax co-ordination also within the G8 and the G20.

"We want to demonstrate once again against what the G8 represents, " said a student giving her name as Maria Teresa.

G8 summit in Deauville, France, was next on the agenda.

If you ask GM's current CEO, Fritz Henderson, the answer is a resounding "no" if we're talking about the Pontiac G8 GXP.

The problem will be high on the agenda at the G8 summit this month.

But Italy, the current chairman of the G8, is falling far behind its commitment to raise aid to 0. 51 per cent of national income by 2010.

This means decarbonising at twice the rate needed to meet the G8's target cuts of 50 per cent by 2050.

So the G8 remains largely a white, western club.

Italy must address this before the G8 meeting in Sardinia in July.

Canada hosts a summit of both the G8 and G20 in Huntsville, Ontario.

The G8 countries have contributed over half the US$ 4 billion spent to date.

The leaders agreed to make the G20 the main group for their international economic cooperation, instead of the G8.

In July 2009, he was invited to attend the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, above.

He led us through the G8, regional committees, the development of several key policy documents, and the election.

The G8 summit also dealt with the world recession.

They should be more prominent on the G8 platform.

There is already concern among G8 organisers that George W. Bush, the US president, is a spent force.

While the G8 accounts for almost half the world's economic output, developing and emerging economies produce 70 per cent of economic growth.

And it is surely time to reconsider Russia's membership of the G8 club of rich democracies.