Expert opinion

	03.12.06 Victoria Panova G8 research group, University of Toronto, Director for Russia
	03.12.06 Mona Bricke German NGO Forum Environment and Development
	03.12.06 Nigel Martin Montreal International Rorum (FIM)
	02.12.06 John Kirton Head of G8 Research Group, University of Toronto
	02.12.06 Regina Gunter Head of the WWF Germany

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G8 finance ministers to talk poor-nation energy access June 9-10

MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti) - Finance ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized nations will discuss access for the world's poorest countries to energy infrastructure at a meeting starting Friday, Russia's finance minister said Tuesday.

Alexei Kudrin said the fight against infectious diseases and terrorism financing, as well as energy security, public finance management and financial literacy, would also be touched upon at the two-day meeting in St. Petersburg.

Representatives of China, India, Brazil, Australia, South Korea and Nigeria - countries outside the G8 - will also participate in the meeting to discuss public finance management and donorship.

The finance minister of Austria, which holds the rotating six-month chair of the European Union, as well as officials from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, will also attend the meeting.

Expert opinion

	02.12.06 Halter Marek Le College de France
	02.12.06 Olivier Giscard d’Estaing COPAM, France
	02.12.06 Mika Ohbayashi Institute for Sustainable Energy Poliсy
	02.12.06 Bill Pace World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy
	01.12.06 Peter I. Hajnal Toronto University, G8 Research Group