Canada announces upcoming G8 summit will focus on Africa and education

Canada's prime minister, Jean Chretien, said the upcoming summit of the eight most industrialized countries, G8, he will be chairing in June 2002 in Kanaskis, Canada, will focus on Africa and education.

Helping Africa, the part of the world facing most dificulties, is no charity. It is an investment, Jean Chretien said at a press conference here, adding education is the key to the problem. With better education, you get better jobs, he said at the end of the G8 summit in Genoa.

Regarding the upcoming summit organization, he said the small locality of Kanaskis has an accommodation capacity of only 350 rooms. So, reporters will have to bring their own sleeping bags, he said jokingly.

Canada had said the summit will be a very limited one in view of the violent events that happened in the 2001 event.