26th G8 summit

The 26th G8 Summit was a meeting in 2000 for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.^[1]

2000 G8 "family photo" at Bankoku Shinryokan. From left to right: Giuliano Amato, Tony Blair, Vladimir Putin, Bill Clinton, Yoshiro Mori, Jacques Chirac, and Jean Chrétien.

This meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) was the 26th meeting in a series which began in 1976. The G8 and the summit are part of a "consultative process and not an international organization".^[2]

The meeting took place in Japan at Naha on the sothern island of Okinawa. The international group of leaders were together from July 21-23, 2000.

Core participants

The participants were the "core members" of the group:^[3]

Core G8 members Host nation and leader are indicated in bold text.
Member		Represented by	Title
	Canada	Jean Chrétien [4]	Prime Minister
	France	Jacques Chirac [5]	President
	Germany	Gerhard Schröder [6]	Chancellor
	Italy	Giuliano Amato [7]	Prime Minister
	Japan	Yoshiro Mori [8]	Prime Minister
	Russia	Vladimir Putin [9]	President
	United Kingdom	Tony Blair [10]	Prime Minister
	United States	Bill Clinton [11]	President
	European Commission	Romano Prodi [12]	President

Agenda

Global health first appeared as an international agenda issue at this meeting.^[13]

Related pages

• G8