G8
Obama: US, France resolved to 'finish job' in Libya
May 27, 2011The US and France are joined in their determination to "finish the job" in Libya, Barack Obama has said at the G8 summit in France. The US president said that meeting the UN resolution could not be achieved while Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi...
G8 summit: Arab uprisings set to dominate agenda
May 26, 2011World leaders are set to gather in the French resort of Deauville for a summit of the G8 bloc of wealthy nations. A shift in global influence to emerging powers such as India and China, who are not in the G8, has led to the group's relevance being questioned...
Britain and France urge G8 to take action against Gadhafi
March 14, 2011As Libyan rebels are attacked again, world powers are still mulling a no-fly zone. Germany, the US and Russia remained cautious going into a G8 meeting on Libya, but Britain advocated arming the rebels. Gadhafi loyalists continued their attacks on rebel...
G8, Emerging Economy Leaders Gather For Summit
July 08, 2009The world's most powerful leaders are in Italy for a Group of Eight (G8) summit set to be dominated by the economic crisis, climate change, and Iran's postelection turmoil. The summit is to begin with G8 leaders charting their latest moves in tackling...
U.S. Senate Resolution calls Russia to be a responsible G8 partner
July 18, 2008A U.S. Senate Resolution 612 on Russia has been passed at the end of the legislative process ant now it is in effect. Senators Joseph Biden (Democrat - Delaware), John Kerry (Democrat - Massachusetts), and Robert Casey (Democrat - Pennsylvania) sponsored...
G8 revisits Iran sanctions, gulf persists
October 05, 2007t a G8 meeting on Wednesday, September 26, tensions escalated between six of the members over Iran’s continued enrichment of uranium, suspected to be used in the development of undisclosed nuclear weapons. The meeting called for the introduction...
NGO head calls on participants to raise Chechnya issue at G8 summit
June 06, 2007Chechnya Peace Forum Director Ivar Amundsen has written to the heads of state of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States requesting that they raise with President Putin during the G8 summit the ongoing violations...
Moldovan foreign minister wants Transdniester discussed at G8
June 29, 2006Andrei Stratan said on June 28 that he hopes Western powers will address the issue of the breakaway Transdniester region at the upcoming summit of the Group of Eight (G8) leading industrialized countries in St. Petersburg, Interfax reported the same day...
Germany sees no chance for full Russian G8 membership
December 27, 2006Berlin (dpa) - There are currently no chances for Russia to clinch full membership in the G8 club of industrial nations, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said Wednesday in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "The question of...
10 most important world events of 2005
December 29, 2005The following list is what many RIA Novosti correspondents consider the 10 most important world events of 2005. 1. The failure of the European Constitution. By voting against the European Constitutional Treaty at a national referendum, France caused...