31st G8 summit

The 31st G8 summit took place from 6 to 8 July 2005 at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland and hosted by Prime Minister Tony Blair. The locations of previous G8 summits to have been hosted by the UK include: London (1977, 1984, 1991);  and Birmingham (1998). It is the first G8 summit to be held in Scotland. A sixth UK summit was held in Lough Erne in 2013; and a seventh UK summit was held in Carbis Bay in 2021.

Leaders who went there
The G8 is an unofficial yearly meetup for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The 31st G8 summit was the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

Participants

Core G8 membersHost state and leader are shown in bold text. Member Represented by Title  Canada Paul Martin Prime Minister  France Jacques Chirac President  Germany Gerhard Schröder Chancellor  Italy Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister  Japan Junichiro Koizumi Prime Minister  Russia Vladimir Putin President  United Kingdom Tony Blair Prime Minister  United States George W. Bush President  European Union José Manuel Barroso Commission President Tony Blair Council PresidentInvited guests (countries) Member Represented by Title  Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President  China Hu Jintao President  Ethiopia Meles Zenawi Prime Minister  India Manmohan Singh Prime Minister  Mexico Vicente Fox President  South Africa Thabo Mbeki PresidentInvited guests (international organisations) Member Represented by Title  United Nations Kofi Annan Secretary-General  World Bank Paul Wolfowitz President

Issues
The summit was meant to be a place for fixing problems among its members. It was also seen as an opportunity for members to give each other encouragement in the face of hard economic decisions. The United Kingdom aimed to stop the problem of conflict among the G8 nations.Bayne, Nicholas. (2005) 

References

Category:G8
Category:2005 in the United Kingdom
Category:2000s in Scotland