Special Report: President Hu attends Outreach Session of G8
Summit
Backgrounder: Key facts
about G8 summit
Backgrounder: Toyako, venue
for 2008 G8 summit
SAPPORO, Japan, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The leaders of China, India, Brazil,
South Africa and Mexico on Tuesday stressed the importance of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations in 2000.
In a declaration issued at the end of a group meeting held here, the
leaders said the international community has recognized that achieving the
internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the
United Nations Millennium Declaration, needs a new partnership between developed
and developing countries.
"This was stated in the Monterrey Consensus, whereby the international
community agreed to work in a coordinated manner to support development by
mobilizing domestic resources, attracting international resource flows,
developing innovative financial mechanisms, harnessing the benefits of
international trade, increasing international financial and technical
cooperation, achieving sustainable debt financing and external debt relief, and
enhancing the coherence and consistency of the international monetary, financial
and trading systems," the declaration said.
"As we reach with uneven success the mid-point in the process to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals, particularly in the least developed countries
in Africa and other regions, the international financial community should join
efforts to preserve financial stability and resume the path of vigorous and
sustainable economic growth as necessary conditions to attaining these goals,"
it said.
"We urge developed countries to renew their resolve to support these
processes in the global interest, particularly regarding trade openness, the
fulfillment of their commitments to allocate at least 0.7 percent of their GNP
(gross national product) to official development assistance (ODA), and the
reform to global governance," it added.
"The international community should ensure that, from their holistic
perspective, the upcoming UN Millennium Development Goals High-level event and
the Doha Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development
contribute to achieving all-round and balanced progress towards the Millennium
Development Goals at the global level," the declaration said.
"A follow-up mechanism to continue to monitor the implementation of the
Monterrey Consensus should be one of the results of the Doha Conference," the
declaration added.
The Monterrey Consensus is the landmark agreement adopted by world leaders
in Mexico at the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development. It
calls for the resources to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the
conditions that will enable freer trade, more foreign investment, debt relief
and efficient government. The MDGs adopted in 2000 are a set of targets designed
to halve or eradicate listed socio-economic ills by 2015.
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Sapporo, capital of Japan's Hokkaido
prefecture, on Monday for the Outreach Session of the Group of Eight (G8)
Summit, slated for Wednesday in the northern Japanese resort of Toyako.
Leaders of China, India, Brazil, S
Africa, Mexico meet before G8 outreach session
SAPPORO, Japan, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Leaders from China,
India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico gathered in Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido,
northern Japan, Tuesday to exchange views on the issues of common concern.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and leaders of the other four
developing countries were meeting on the eve of an outreach session of the Group
of Eight (G8) summit, slated for Wednesday in the northern Japanese resort of
Toyako. Full story
Chinese president leaves for G8 summit
outreach session
BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao
left here Monday afternoon for Japan to attend the Outreach Session of the Group
of Eight (G8) Summit, at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
Hu's entourage included Ling Jihua, member of the
Secretariat of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director
of General Office of CPC Central Committee, Wang Huning, member of the
Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and director of Policy Research Office
of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor Dai Bingguo, Foreign Minister Yang
Jiechi, Minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission
Zhang Ping, Minister of Agriculture Sun Zhengcai, Minister of Commerce Chen
Deming, Director of the President's Office Chen Shiju and Assistant Foreign
Minister Liu Jieyi. Full story
Japan summit to test G8 leaders on
climate change, world economy and security
TOYAKO, Japan, July 6 (Xinhua) -- When the leaders of the
Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations gather in Hokkaido, Japan, this week
for their annual summit, they face the challenge of showing greater resolve to
fight global warming, remedying the world economy and easing tensions in the
world's hot spots.
The host country Japan has put talks on climate change
high on the agenda of the meeting in the northern resort of Toyako, building on
the outcome of last year's summit in Germany, where leaders agreed to seriously
consider a target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Full story
G8 summit opens with focus on Africa
on Day 1
TOYAKO, Japan, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The three-day summit of
the Group of Eight (G8) kicked off on Monday with the first session bringing
together leaders of the industrialized nations and their counterparts from seven
African countries.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who is playing host
for the G8 annual gathering, greeted other G8 leaders and the African leaders at
the start of a working lunch at the hilltop Windsor Hotel in Toyako, a resort
town on the northern island of Hokkaido. Full story
