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G7: About
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Welcome to the G7 website. These pages are designed to keep you up to date with events and meetings that will take place under the UK Presidency in 2005.
"2005 is a make or break year for development - an opportunity to make a breakthrough on debt relief and development, on tackling disease and on delivering the Doha development round on trade."
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Gordon Brown, MP
The G7 is an informal group of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors from the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Canada, Italy, Japan and Germany. More information on G7 members .
G7 Finance Ministers meet four times a year, with Central Bank Governors attending all but the pre-Summit ministerial meeting. In 2005 the UK will host a G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting on 4th-5th February and a G8 Finance Ministers Meeting on 10th-11th June to prepare for the G8 Heads of State Summit. As is customary, two other meetings will be held in Washington in conjunction with the regular meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that are held in the Spring and Autumn. Full calendar of G7 and other related events .
In February and June 2005, the United Kingdom’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, will host and chair these Finance Ministers meetings in London . Information on press accreditation for these meetings.
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