The 34th G8 summit was a meeting in 2008 for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
This meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) was the 34th meeting in a series which began in 1976. The G8 and the summit are part of a "consultative process and not an international organization".
The meeting took place in Japan at on the northern island of Hokkaidō. The international group of leaders met from July 7–9, 2008.
Core participants
The participants were the "core members" of the group:
Invited leaders
A small others were invited to join some of the discussions.
G8+5
The G8 plus the five other nations were known as G8+5. Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President. China Hu Jintao, President. India Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister. Mexico Felipe Calderón, President. South Africa Thabo Mbeki, President.
Other leaders
Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President. Australia Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister. Ethiopia Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister. Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor, President. Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President. Nigeria Umaru Yar'Adua, President. Senegal Abdoulaye Wade, President. South Korea Lee Myung-bak, President. Tanzania Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President.
Heads of international organizations
Leaders of some organizations were invited to be part of some of the discussions.
African Union Jean Ping, AU Commission Chairman Jakaya Kikwete, AU Chairman. Commonwealth of Independent States Sergei Lebedev, Executive Secretary International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General International Energy Agency Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director United Nations Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General. UNESCO Koichiro Matsuura, Director General World Bank Robert Zoellick, President. World Health Organization Margaret Chan, Director-General World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy, Director-General