Italy has been awarded a score of 0.75 for its efforts to promote its vision of development with a special focus on Africa. The communiqué released at the end of the summit mentioned both the need to increase local ownership over the development process and the need to enhance efforts aimed at attaining the MDGs, [...]
At approximately 6:45 today, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled the outcome of the discussions today on the so-called “Muskoka Initiative” on maternal health and childhood mortality. Prime Minister Harper announced that the G8 had pledged a total of 5 billion dollars US over the next 5 years towards the Muskoka Initiative. Moreover, in addition [...]
Just after 3pm, Prime Minister Stephen Harper held a brief press conference to welcome the leaders of the seven African countries invited this year’s G8 Summit (Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa). Prime Minister Harper expressed his pleasure that his “African colleagues” were able to attend the summit, as this would build [...]
At 11:45 am, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Director of Communications Dimitri Soudas and Canada’s G8 Sherpa Leonard J. Edwards held a press briefing for the international media on the agenda for the leaders’ meetings happening later today in Muskoka. Mr. Soudas emphasized that the discussions will focus on the issues of development and international [...]
At the 2010 G8 Muskoka Summit, Italy will focus on the following five priority areas: the promotion of sustainable development (with a special focus on Africa); regional security (in particular Iran, the Middle East peace process, and Afghanistan); energy security; nuclear non-proliferation; and global financial governance. Italy is hoping to create a consensus around its [...]
