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==Leaders at the Summit==
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[[File:Vladimir Putin at G8 Summit 2000-4.jpg|thumb|right|2000 [[G8]] "family photo" at ''Bankoku Shinryokan'' -- Standing, from left to right, are: Guiliano Amato (EU), Tony Blair (UK), Vladamir Putin (Russia), Bill Clinton (US), Yoshiro Mori (Japan), Jacques Chirac (France), and Jean Chrétien (Canada).]]
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at "Bankoku Shinryokan".


===Permanent G8 participants===
===Core G8 participants===
*{{flagicon|Canada}} '''[[Canada]]''' - [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Jean Chrétien]].<ref name="delegations">[[G8 Research Group]]: [http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/summit/2000okinawa/delegation.htm delegations.]</ref>
*{{flagicon|Canada}} '''[[Canada]]''' - [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Jean Chrétien]].<ref name="delegations">[[G8 Research Group]]: [http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/summit/2000okinawa/delegation.htm delegations.]</ref>
*{{flagicon|European Union}} '''[[European Commission]]''' - [[President of the European Commission|President]] [[Romano Prodi]].<ref>G8 Research Group: [http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/summit/2000okinawa/delegation.htm delegations;] [[European Union]]: [http://www.deljpn.ec.europa.eu/union/showpage_en_union.external.g8.php "EU and the G8"]</ref>
*{{flagicon|France}} '''[[France]]''' - [[President of France|President]] [[Jacques Chirac]].<ref name="delegations"/>
*{{flagicon|France}} '''[[France]]''' - [[President of France|President]] [[Jacques Chirac]].<ref name="delegations"/>
*{{flagicon|Germany}} '''[[Germany]]''' - [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor]] [[Gerhard Schröder]].<ref name="delegations"/>
*{{flagicon|Germany}} '''[[Germany]]''' - [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|Chancellor]] [[Gerhard Schröder]].<ref name="delegations"/>

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26th G8 summit
File:G8 okinawa.png
26th G8 summit official logo
Host countryJapan
DatesJuly 21-23

The 26th G8 Summit was a political summit that took place in Nago, Okinawa, Japan, on July 21- July 23, 2000.

Overview

The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada starting in 1976. The G8, meeting for the first time in 1997, was formed with the addition of Russia.[1] In addition, the President of the European Commission has been formally included in summits since 1981.[2] The summits were not meant to be linked formally with wider international institutions; and in fact, a mild rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France's President Giscard d'Estaing and Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the initial summit of the Group of Six (G6) in 1975.[3]

The G8 summits during the twenty-first century have inspired widespread debates, protests and demonstrations; and the two- or three-day event becomes more than the sum of its parts, elevating the participants, the issues and the venue as focal points for activist pressure.[4]

Leaders at the Summit

2000 G8 "family photo" at Bankoku Shinryokan -- Standing, from left to right, are: Guiliano Amato (EU), Tony Blair (UK), Vladamir Putin (Russia), Bill Clinton (US), Yoshiro Mori (Japan), Jacques Chirac (France), and Jean Chrétien (Canada).

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]

Core G8 participants

Priorities

2000 yen featuring Shureimon in commemoration of the summit

Traditionally, the host country of the G8 summit sets the agenda for negotiations, which take place primarily amongst multi-national civil servants in the weeks before the summit itself, leading to a joint declaration which all countries can agree to sign.

Issues

The summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult economic decisions.[3]

Agenda

Global health was first introduced as an agenda at this G8 summit in 2000.[7]

Business opportunity

For some, the G8 summit became a profit-generating event; as for example, the official G8 Summit magazines which have been published under the auspices of the host nations for distribution to all attendees since 1998.[8]

A picture of Shureimon appears on the Japanese 2,000 yen note, released in 2000 in commemoration of the summit in Okinawa; and the Japanese government encountered criticism for having spent more than $750 million to hold this event.[9]

Namie Amuro's song "Never End" was made for the summit.[10]

Notes

  1. ^ Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," Globe and Mail (Toronto). July 5, 2008.
  2. ^ a b Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", July 3, 2008.
  3. ^ a b Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations, p. 205.
  4. ^ "Influencing Policy on International Development: G8," BOND (British Overseas NGOs for Development). 2008.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h G8 Research Group: delegations.
  6. ^ G8 Research Group: delegations; European Union: "EU and the G8"
  7. ^ Kurokawa, Kyoshi et al. "Italian G8 Summit: a critical juncture for global health," The Lancet (British Medical Association). Vol. 373, Iss. 9663 (14 February 2009), pp. 526-527.
  8. ^ Prestige Media: "official" G8 Summit magazine
  9. ^ Sims, Calvin. "Group of 8 Pledges to Help Poor Countries," New York Times. July 24, 2000.
  10. ^ Watts, Jonathan (2000-07-24). "Okinawa diary". London: guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-10-31.

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