The G8 in Dispersed Order

The leaders of the G8 reunited for their annual summit of the 8th to the 10th of June at Sea Island in George (in the south of the United States.) The program included such topics as Iraq, petroleum, and the Great Middle-East.
This G8 (United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, England, Germany, France, and Italy) is but one of several stages of diplomatic pressure that George W. Bush intends to exercise in order to make the other names adopt his positions regarding Iraq.
After Evian, last year, summit of the patching up of French-American relations, Sea Island confirmed the absence of common vision. The French President already reminded that his priorities were strongly differing from those of the Americans. Paris notably insisted upon the aid of development with an initiative on microfinance and would speak again of international taxation. Another French priority was that of Nepad—Nouveau partenariat pour le développement de l’Afrique, or the New Partnership for the Development of Africa—engaged in 2001. This year, six African leaders were present and the G8 adopted a plan combating famine in Ethiopia and another on the reinforcement of capacities of maintenance of peace.
Washington, for its part, advances in the argument of the Middle East. This plan seeks to promote democracy and security via political, social, and economic reforms in an immense zone spanning from Mauritania to Pakistan.