32nd G8 summit
- Canada Canada - Stephen Harper
- France France - Jacques Chirac
- Germany Germany - Angela Merkel
- Italy Italy - Romano Prodi
- Japan Japan - Junichiro Koizumi
- Russia Russia - Vladimir Putin
- United Kingdom United Kingdom - Tony Blair
- United States United States - George W. Bush
The 32nd G8 Summit was held from 15 to 17 July 2006 near the Russian city of St Petersburg in the Konstantin Palace, the Gulf of Finland instead. Energy problems, security and development were the main topics at the summit of the Group of Eight.
The participants
- Canada Canada - Stephen Harper
- France France - Jacques Chirac
- Germany Germany - Angela Merkel
- Italy Italy - Romano Prodi
- Japan Japan - Junichiro Koizumi
- Russia Russia - Vladimir Putin
- United Kingdom United Kingdom - Tony Blair
- United States United States - George W. Bush
Invited representatives (partial participation )
- Brazil Brazil - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
- India - Manmohan Singh
- Mexico Mexico - Vicente Fox
- People's Republic of China People's Republic of China - Hu Jintao
- South Africa South Africa - Thabo Mbeki
- African Union The African Union - Denis Sassou Nguesso
- European Union - José Manuel Barroso
- Commonwealth of Independent States - Nursultan Nazarbayev
- International Atomic Energy Agency - Mohammed el- Baradei
- International Energy Agency - Claude Mandil
- United Nations United Nations - Kofi Annan
- UNESCO - Koichiro Matsuura
- World Trade Organization - Pascal Lamy
- World Bank - Paul Wolfowitz
- World Health Organization - Anders Nordström
Energy policy
All G8 countries except Germany is known for the use of nuclear energy. The development of nuclear power could contribute to global energy security, reducing air pollution and to tackle climate change. This part of the statement was not supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the summit declaration on the subject of nuclear power said: " We recognize that the G8 members have taken different paths to achieve energy security and climate change goals. " Agreement among the G8 countries, however, prevailed in the other points of the Declaration on Energy Security: Use as many different energy sources, improving energy efficiency and protection of power plants and other infrastructure from terrorist attacks.
Israel - Lebanon crisis
The Russian president and host of the G8 summit, Vladimir Putin continued the Israel - Lebanon crisis in 2006, which broke out on 12 July 2006, on the agenda. Through the Middle East conflict, the other issues are relegated to the background.
On 16 July, the summit participants adopt a joint statement in which the attacks of Hezbollah and of parts of the Hamas condemns Israel. " These extremists, and those who support them, the Middle East must not plunge into chaos and provoke a wider conflict ," it states. Israel is exhorted in the declaration to retaliate cautious about military action in self-defense.
President Bush said in a conversation at the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, announced to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, that one would have to increase the pressure on Syria, " that it Hezbullah takes to stop this shit ."
No agreement on Russia's WTO accession
At the G8 summit in St. Petersburg, the representatives involved could not agree on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization.
Protests
The summit took place almost without significant protests took place - from the perspective of the Russian government a success. The zero - tolerance strategy had an effect: A sit-down protest on the boulevard Nevsky Prospekt was disbanded after a few minutes, up to 34 protesters were arrested. The counter-summit of globalization critics in a remote Stadium was by a ring of security forces isolated. Even before activists had received a visit from the police, hundreds of them were taken into custody as a precaution.