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Canada did not attend the initial meeting in 1975, and the president of the European Commission joined the discussions in 1977. Beginning in 1994, Russia joined the discussions, and the group became known as the Group of 8 (G8) or the “Political Eight”; Russia officially became the eighth member in 1997.
The G8 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [2] The 30th G8 summit was the first summit for Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin .
The Y8 Summit or simply Y8, formerly known as the G8 Youth Summit [49] is the youth counterpart to the G8 summit. [50] The summits were organized from 2006 to 2013. The first summit to use the name Y8 took place in May 2012 in Puebla, Mexico, alongside the Youth G8 that took place in Washington, D.C. the same year. From 2016 onwards, similar ...
Jul 13, 2006 · The G8 Summit Agenda. ... If the recent pre-meeting of the G8 foreign ministers is any indication, a number of external conflicts will also be on the agenda, including the Iran nuclear case, North ...
- Lionel Beehner
Jun 30, 2005 · On June 11, in a pre-summit planning meeting with finance ministers, the G-7 countries (minus Russia) agreed to forgive the multilateral debt of 18 poor countries, mostly in Africa, in a deal ...
- Esther Pan
Jul 10, 2008 · Poverty, climate change, and the food crisis were at the forefront of the G8 Summit held in Hokkaido, Japan this week. Johannes Linn assesses the G8 meeting outcomes, and explores the implications ...
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The G8 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [4] The 34th G8 summit was the first summit for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, [17] and was the last summit for US President George ...
