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

References

2000 yen note which features Okinawa landmark was issued in honor of G8 summit

1. "The Group of Eight: what is it?" Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine Reuters. July 3, 2008; retrieved 2012-2-10.
2. G20-G8 France 2011, "What is G8?" Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-3-16.
3. Rieffel, Lex. "Regional Voices in Global Governance: Looking to 2010 (Part IV)," Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Brookings. March 27, 2009; retrieved 2012-2-10.
4. Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Chrétien; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-2-10.
5. MOFA: Chirac; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-2-10.
6. MOFA: Schröder; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-2-10.
7. MOFA: Amato; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-2-10.
8. MOFA: Mori; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-2-10.
9. MOFA: Putin; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-2-10.
10. MOFA: Blair; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-2-10.
11. MOFA: Clinton; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-2-10.
12. MOFA: Prodi; G-8 delegations Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine; Delegation of the European Union to Japan, "EU and the G8 & G20"^{[permanent dead link]}; retrieved 2012-5-21.
13. Kurokawa, Kyoshi et al. "Italian G8 Summit: a critical juncture for global health," Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine The Lancet (British Medical Association). Vol. 373, Issue 9663 (14 February 2009), pp. 526-527; retrieved 2012-2-10.

Other websites

Media related to 26th G8 summit at Wikimedia Commons

• Okinawa Summit 2000 Archived 2012-02-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Kyushu-Okinawa Summit 2000 documents, photos
• University of Toronto: G8 Information Centre Archived 2009-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
• Parliament.uk, Graphic shows G8 in context Archived 2014-03-26 at the Wayback Machine

Preceded by 25th G8 summit

26th G8 summit Okinawa 2000

Succeeded by 27th G8 summit