Outreach sessions a regular feature

Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations, who are meeting here from today to Friday, will have two outreach sessions, one with five developing countries - Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa - and the other with African countries.

Leaders from Algeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal have been invited to the outreach session tomorrow morning with the G8 leaders, along with Alpha Oumar Konare, chairman of the Commission of the African Union, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

This will be the fourth time President Hu Jintao has been invited to attend the dialogue meeting, scheduled for tomorrow morning at Heiligendamm in eastern Germany.