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US PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH AND SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV STAND NEXT TO EACH OTHER AT THE GROUP PHOTO AT THE 1991 SUMMIT IN LONDON.
FROM LEFT, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER TOMIICHI MURAYAMA, CANADIAN PM JEAN CHRETIEN, EUROPEAN UNION PRESIDENT JACQUES DELORS, BRITISH PM JOHN MAJOR, GERMAN CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL AND ITALIAN PRESIDENT SILVIO BERLUSCONI CHAT AT THE 1994 SUMMIT IN NAPLES, ITALY.
THE LEADERS (JOINED BY A FEW AIDES) LISTEN TO US PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AT THE 1996 MEETING IN LYON, FRANCE.
PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA JEAN CHRETIEN DONS A WASHINGTON CAPITOLS JERSEY AT THE 1998 G-8 RETREAT AS PAYMENT FOR A LOST WAGER TO PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, WHO BET CHRETIEN THAT THE CAPITOLS WOULD BEAT THE OTTAWA SENATORS IN THE NHL PLAYOFFS THAT YEAR.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ENGAGES A DUCK IN CONVERSATION, AS FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC LOOKS ON, OUTSIDE BIRMINGHAM, BRITAIN, 1998.
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN AND BRITISH PM TONY BLAIR TOAST EACH OTHER IN 2002 IN KANANASKIS, CANADA.
ANTI-GLOBALIZATION ACTIVISTS DASH OFF WITH LOOTED BEVERAGES AFTER SMASHING INTO A GAS STATION ON THE SWISS SIDE OF THE BORDER AS THE 2003 G-8 MEETING CONVENED ACROSS THE LAKE IN EVIAN, FRANCE.
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN JOINS FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY AND THE REST OF THE GROUP AT THE TABLE IN GERMANY, 2007.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR AND ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER ROMANO PRODI SHARE A LAUGH WHILE SIPPING APERITIFS (A NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER FOR BUSH) AT THE 2007 SUMMIT.
GLOBALIZATION CRITICS MASQUERADE AS THE G8 LEADERS AFTER SHOOTING THE FILM 'DROPPING KNOWLEDGE SUMMERCAMP' IN BERLIN, GERMANY, 2007.
IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN, AUSTRALIAN FINANCE MINISTER WAYNE SWAN AND EU COMMISSIONER FOR ECONOMY JOAQUIN ALMUNIA SIP SAKE AT A RECEPTION FOR G8 MINISTERS IN OSAKA, JAPAN, 2008.