The G-8 Summit and Taiwan Lung-chu Chen The 3-day
G-8 Summit concluded on July 23 and issued a joint communique. These eight
countries are: the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany,
Italy, Canada, and Russia. The three major subjects of discussion were:
stability of the world, further prosperity, and peace of the mind. The
communique emphasized that all members of the international community
should abide by the Charter of the United Nations to settle disputes by
peaceful means, and urged that the World Trade Organization (WTO) begin a
new round of multilateral trade negotiations this year. The summit issued
"IT Okinawa Charter", emphasizing that information technology will be a
driving force for development in the new century and urging that major
advanced industrial countries should do their utmost to help bring
developing countries into the new era of information society. Prime
Minister Yoshiro Mori of the host country Japan concluded that the Okinawa
Summit opened up the path to the world into the 21st century. |