24th G8 summit

Leaders at the summit

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.

The 24th G8 summit was the last summit for German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.

Participants

These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:

The format order of this section mirrors the order of the Muskoka 2010 G8 official website -- see http://g8.gc.ca/about/member-states/

This format order is also congruent with "Summit Meetings of the Past" at website of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- see http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/summit/2000/past_summit/table_e/index.html

• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• Russia
• United Kingdom
• USA

• European Union

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Deliberations

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. Traditionally, the host country of a 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.

The summit issued an "Action Program on Forests", which focused on five themes:

1. monitoring and assessment
2. national forest programmes
3. protected areas
4. private sector
5. illegal logging

and made a pledge to report back on progress in 2000. One view published in 2000 found little evidence of follow-up action or programme, but a formal report on implementation was drawn together for the Kyushu Okinawa Summit in July 2000, which included country-by-country reports on implementation. Report on The Implementation of The G8 Action Programme on Forests, G7 G20 Documents Database, published on 21 July 2000, accessed on 10 August 2025

Outside the summit, a reported assembly of around 70,000 people formed a human chain around the city, demonstrating concern regarding the indebted poverty of many poor countries and the need for international leaders to take action to remit that debt.

Criticisms

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.

Gallery of participating leaders

Core G8 participants

File:Jean Chrétien 1993.jpg|Canada Canada Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister File:Jacques Chirac (1997) (cropped).jpg|France France Jacques Chirac, President File:Helmut Kohl (1996) cropped.jpg|Germany Germany Helmut Kohl, Chancellor File:Romano Prodi 1999 (cropped).jpg|Italy Italy Romano Prodi, Prime Minister File:Ryutaro Hashimoto 19960111.jpg|Japan Japan Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime Minister File:Борис Николаевич Ельцин-1 (cropped) (cropped).jpg|Russia Russia Boris Yeltsin, President File:Tony Blair 1997.jpg|United Kingdom United KingdomTony Blair, Prime Minister (Host) File:Bill Clinton.jpg|United States United States Bill Clinton, President

References

Sources

• Bayne, Nicholas and Robert D. Putnam. (2000). Hanging in There: The G7 and G8 Summit in Maturity and Renewal. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. ; ;
• Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations. London: Routledge. ; ; ; ;

References

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