31st G8 summit

31st G8 summit
Host country	United Kingdom (Scotland)
Date	6–8 July 2005
Follows	30th G8 summit
Precedes	32nd 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.^[1] A sixth UK summit was held in Lough Erne in 2013;^[2] and a seventh UK summit was held in Carbis Bay in 2021.^[3]

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.^[4]

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

Participants

Core G8 members Host 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 President
Invited 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	President
Invited 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.^[5]

References

1. "Poverty, protests and policing: All eyes were on Gleneagles at 2005 G8 Summit". The Courier. 10 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
2. "What Makes Fermanagh an Attractive G8 Location". BBC News. 20 November 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
3. "47th G7 Summit kicks-off; here's what to expect". CNBC-TV18. 11 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
4. "FACTBOX: The Group of Eight: what is it?". Reuters. 3 July 2008. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
5. Bayne, Nicholas. (2005) Staying Together: the G8 Summit Confronts the 21st Century, p. 232., p. 232, at Google Books