Group of Eight

The Working Group held eight meetings.

Group of Eight Action Plan to Enhance Transport Security and Control of man portable air defence systems, Evian Summit 2003, and Group of Eight Secure and Facilitated International Travel Initiative, Sea Island Summit, 2004.

The Group of Eight, meeting in Scotland, showed how we redeem our pledge.

PESC COARM, GMD, Group of Eight and United Nations meetings on firearms issues

C. The Group of Eight proposals for debt cancellation for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries

The Group of Eight initiatives on debt relief and on Africa are important contributions.

The Group of Eight Summit in Gleneagles made substantial commitments on aid volumes and debt.

The Group of Eight also reiterated its support for international standards developed by ICAO and IMO.

We welcome the Gleneagles Group of Eight Summit pledge of 3 billion in aid to the Palestinian Authority.

That is precisely the point of an initiative that Germany submitted within the framework of the Group of Eight.

Also noting with satisfaction that the Group of Eight, at its summit meeting held at Kananaskis, Canada, in June 2002, devoted part of its deliberations to the New Partnership for Africa's Development, which resulted in the adoption of a Group of Eight action plan for Africa,

This year, the Group of Eight countries have pledged increased aid and debt cancellation for low income countries.

Many Governments and international organizations have endorsed its use, including the Group of Eight Ministers, EU and dozens of countries.

Also, the Group of Eight countries and other donors have pledged more resources for Africa than at any other time.

The European Union also welcomes commitments made by the Group of Eight to support African capacities for peace and security.

Russia, within the context of its presidency of the Group of Eight in 2006, intends to devote constant attention to this question.

The Group of Eight Ministers have agreed to combat the proliferation of man portable air defence systems, as well as to encourage further action in the ICAO Aviation Security Working Group.

Welcoming also the June 2004 action plan of the Group of Eight entitled Applying the power of entrepreneurship to the eradication of poverty ,

We will also fulfil all our promises related to debt relief decided upon at the Group of Eight meeting at Gleneagles.

Fortunately, the new approach set out in the Blair report opened promising prospects arising from the Gleneagles Summit of the Group of Eight.

I would like to speak about additional resources beyond the contribution of debt cancellation pledged by the Group of Eight, which we welcome.

Recent immigrants now take seven or eight years to catch up to the literacy levels of Canadians in their same age group.

At the Group of Eight summit this summer, I pledged to increase that trade assistance still further, to 1 billion a year.

We welcome in that context the commitment for long term support to Africa from the European Union and the Group of Eight.

As current Chair of the Group of Eight, the United Kingdom would like to emphasize the commitment of that grouping, in particular its Counter Terrorism Action Group, to working with the CTC and the CTED.

5. Invites all countries, as appropriate, to join the Group of Eight commitment to the non proliferation principles endorsed by the Group of Eight leaders at the Kananaskis Summit aimed at preventing terrorists, or those who harbour them, from acquiring or developing nuclear, chemical, radiological and biological weapons, missiles, and related materials, equipment and technology

Recent steps taken by the Group of Eight to write off 40 billion in debt owed by 18 countries, mainly African, were welcomed.

Welcomes the Group of Eight action plan on ending the cycle of famine in the Horn of Africa and looks forward to its full implementation

Norway was the first country outside the Group of Eight to join the Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction.

Welcomes the Group of Eight action plan on ending the cycle of famine in the Horn of Africa, and looks forward to its full implementation

In addressing fraudulent travel documents, the Security Council should capitalize on work already done by Interpol, the Group of Eight and other multinational bodies.

Recent steps taken by the Group of Eight to write off 40 billion in debt owed by 18 countries, mainly in Africa, were welcomed.

(f) Recommendation 32 of the Senior Experts Group on Transnational Organized Crime endorsed by the Political Group of Eight in Lyon, France, on 29 June 1996 See Economic and Social Council resolution 1997 22, annex I.

6. Welcomes the Group of Eight action plan on ending the cycle of famine in the Horn of Africa, and looks forward to its full implementation

5. Welcomes the Group of Eight action plan on ending the cycle of famine in the Horn of Africa, and looks forward to its full implementation

22. Also calls for the fulfilment of pledges by the Group of Eight countries to double by 2010 official development assistance to Africa, and in this regard calls upon the international community, particularly the Group of Eight, to honour their commitments and to ensure that the increase in official development assistance translates into the actual flow of financial resources to developing countries

We therefore look forward to the important decisions to be taken at the summit of the Group of Eight to be held in Scotland next month.

We welcome the declaration of the Group of Eight favouring debt cancellation, time bound commitments for enhanced official development assistance, and efforts for additional innovative financing.

I wish to congratulate the Group of Eight on the commitments adopted at the Scotland summit to forgive the multilateral debt of 18 least developed countries.

We congratulate the Group of Eight for the commitment adopted at the Gleneagles Summit, giving much needed debt relief to 18 heavily indebted poor countries.

The eight new CEE member countries of the European Union (EU) the group mostly affected by the downturn in 2003 experienced the most vigorous increase.

We welcome the declaration by the Group of Eight favouring debt cancellation, time bound commitments for enhanced ODA and the efforts for additional innovative financing.

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