African Players Change the Rules for G8, G20
The G8 summit will be a rush job, with world leaders meeting for less than a day, to make it to the G20 the next day. It's a sign of how fast the balance of power has shifted from G8 to G20, an expert says.
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Any invitation to any multilateral summit, that does not place africa countries, on equal footing in terms of their status, in terms of their positions as partners, will be ineffective, irrelevant & gratuituos delusion. Because african countries have always been invited guests to G-8 summits, but the results were always mere photo sessions.