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Outreach sessions a regular feature

Updated: 2007-06-07 07:10




Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations, who are
meeting here from today to Friday, will have two outreach sessions, one
with five developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South
Africa - and the other with African countries.

Leaders from Algeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal have
been invited to the outreach session tomorrow morning with the G8
leaders, along with Alpha Oumar Konare, chairman of the Commission of the
African Union, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

This will be the fourth time President Hu Jintao has been invited to
attend the dialogue meeting, scheduled for tomorrow morning at
Heiligendamm in eastern Germany.

In recent years, the G8, consisting of Britain, Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States, has strengthened relations
with developing countries and invited such nations as China and India for
dialogue on major international issues.

At the 2003 G8 summit, held in Evian, France, leaders from China, Brazil,
India, Malaysia, Mexico and Saudi Arabia, as well as five NEPAD (the New
Partnership for Africa's Development) countries - Egypt, Senegal,
Nigeria, Algeria and South Africa - attended the informal South-North
dialogue meeting ahead of the G8 summit.

At the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, Britain invited leaders
from five major developing countries (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and
South Africa), and some African countries (Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania) to attend the dialogue meeting.

Leaders from the G8 and developing countries discussed the world economy,
climate change and other major international issues.

Chinese President Hu delivered a speech at the meeting in which he made a
four-point proposal on developing the global economy, implementing the UN
Millennium Development Goals, deepening South-North dialogue and dealing
with climate change.

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