Leaders of G-5 countries meet in Italy

September 29th, 2009 BEIJING - The annual prime ministers' meet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be held in Beijing Oct 14, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu announced here Tuesday. The leaders from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the SCO observer countries and other relevant countries would be attending the meet.

July 10th, 2009 Obama to conclude summit talks, meet with popeL'AQUILA, Italy — Global problems, Africa and the pope all figure in President Barack Obama's day. He's in Italy, where the three-day G-8 summit on climate change and the economy is wrapping up.

July 10th, 2009 L'AQUILA - Convincing her father to let her go to school has paid dividends for a teenaged Indian girl from a tribal area of Orissa. She has now rubbed shoulders with some of the most powerful people on this earth - such as US President Barack Obama - in this quake-hit Italian town.

July 9th, 2009 Summit draft: G8/G5 seek Doha trade deal in 2010L'AQUILA, Italy — Leaders of developed and developing nations meeting in the quake-ravaged city of L'Aquila are seeking agreement to wrap up stalled trade talks in 2010 and head off protectionist policies. A draft of a joint declaration by the Group of Eight obtained Thursday by The Associated Press sets a goal of concluding the stalled Doha round next year.

July 9th, 2009 L'AQUILA - A 16 year old tribal girl from Orissa's Koraput district rubbed shoulders with world leaders at the Junior Eight summit in Italy. Sanjukta Pangi is representing India in the J8 (Junior 8) international youth summit, which is currently being held in Italy along with the G8 conclave.

July 9th, 2009 Obama, other G-8 leaders expand Italian summitL'AQUILA, Italy — President Barack Obama is in Italy, midway through the three-day G-8 economic summit that is heavily focused on climate change and world trade. His round of meetings today begins with one-on-one talks with the president of Brazil.

July 8th, 2009 L'AQUILA - In a strong message ahead of the G8 meet here, the emerging economies of the G5 including India Wednesday asked the grouping of the industrialised nations to find global solutions to international problems without compromising the interest of developing and poor countries. At the end of their meeting here, the leaders of the G5 countries - China, India, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa - specifically mentioned the financial crisis, protectionist issues in trade, climate change and food security as the issues that the G8 needs to address.

July 8th, 2009 ROME - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh arrived in Rome on a four-day visit on Tuesday to attend the G-8 summit.

June 29th, 2009 China's Hu to attend G8 meeting in ItalyBEIJING — Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend next month's meeting in Italy between leaders of the Group of Eight nations and those of emerging economies, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Hu will attend the July 8-10 meeting in Trieste, Italy, at the invitation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, it said in a statement.

June 26th, 2009 TRIESTE - The world's eight most powerful nations have given Iran until September to respond to a US offer of direct talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, G8 foreign ministers agreed Friday. The G8's leaders are to meet in New York in September on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly, and that will be "an opportunity to verify whether Iran has responded to the international community's negotiation offer," Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said.

June 15th, 2009 Italy open to taking 3 Guantanamo detaineesWASHINGTON — Italy says it is open to taking at least three detainees from Guantanamo. An aide to Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Monday the topic will likely come up during the Italian leader's meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House later in the day.

June 12th, 2009 Gadhafi meets with Italian business leadersROME — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has met with business leaders during a visit to Italy that has sparked protests. Gadhafi held talks Friday with the powerful business lobby Confindustria on trade and possible investments between the two countries.

June 12th, 2009 UN chief: key Mideast peacemakers to meetUNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says that key parties trying to promote Mideast peace will meet in Italy later this month. Ban gave no details on the date and place but said Thursday he expects the Quartet of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia to discuss the next steps to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace.

June 12th, 2009 LONDON - One hundred senior legislators from around the globe meeting in Rome Friday called on the world's wealthiest eight countries to transfer up to $140 billion per year to developing countries while "laying their cards on the table" to help fight climate change. The legislators, including five from India, said it was imperative for the Group of Eight (G8) countries to state exactly how much of their individual carbon emissions they intended to cut well before world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to agree upon a final climate change strategy.

June 11th, 2009 Advocacy group says Italy has failed in Africa aidLONDON — Italy has failed to meet its commitments to reduce poverty in Africa and has lost credibility in its relationship with the region, an aid group backed by Bono and Bob Geldof warned Thursday. The G-8 — the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia — laid out ambitious plans in 2005 to increase aid to Africa by $25 billion a year by 2010, more than doubling the 2004 level of aid to the continent.