MOSCOW, December 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia intends to invite to the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg in 2006 a number of countries which are not members of the G8, as well as certain international organizations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday.
"Each presidency has its own agenda and invites countries who can contribute most to the agenda items being discussed. We are now considering the list of what is called in the G8 jargon 'outreach', meaning countries and organizations apart from direct G8 participants," Lavrov said in an interview with Russia Today, the country's first 24-hour English-language news channel that hit the airwaves December 10 at 1 p.m. GMT.
"I can only tell you at this stage that there would be participants from other countries and organizations, but the specific list of those is still being consulted with our partners," he said.
