G8 summit day 3
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Robert Mugabe’s regime was ‘illegitimate’ and had ‘blood on its hands’.
He was speaking at the close of the three-day G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, today.
World leaders at the G8 Summit in 2008
G8 Summits
G8 summit day 2. Climate change
The G8 leaders today failed to make significant moves on climate change.
Discussions about how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions came on the second day of the summit on the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
1st day of summit. UN/World Bank
The leaders of the G8 nations must take decisive action to halt spiralling rises in food and oil prices and to increase aid to developing nations.
About Hazel
Hazel Southam is an award-winning journalist who reports on religious affairs, international development and the environment. She has covered four G8 Summits.
She wrote for The Sunday and Daily Telegraph for 10 years. Her work has also appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Mail and The Evening Standard.
Reporting assignments have taken her to places including Bosnia, Zimbabwe, Mongolia, Albania, Nagorno-Karabakh, Senegal and the Arctic Circle.
In the UK, she has also delivered media training to the MOD and leading businesses.
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