The meeting was ahead of President Obama's trip to NI for the G8 summit.
Before Obuchi's illness, it was believed that the election would be called just after the G8 summit.
Mr Aso also appears to crave the prestige of attending the G8 summit in Italy in July.
And at the G8 summit next week, I'm going to urge other nations to do the same.
The G8 summit itself is due to take place at Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, in two months' time.
At the G8 summit in 2005, I promised our assistance to Africa would double once again by 2010.
At the G8 summit, I'm going to encourage world leaders to increase their own investments in research and development.
London ministers hope this deal will be agreed within the coming weeks, prior to the G8 summit due in June.
Foreign ministers from the G8 nations are starting two days of talks in London before the G8 summit in June.
Mr Cameron announced in November that the G8 summit would be held at the Lough Erne golf resort near Enniskillen.
And tomorrow we are willing to continue discussing economic issues during the G8 summit, and later on during the G20 summit.
Activists will be taking to the streets again next week, when the G8 Summit is in full swing in Chicago.
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As the world's leading industrialized nations concluded the G8 Summit in Scotland today, they agreed that climate change does require urgent action.
Some of the international delegations attending the G8 summit in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in June will base themselves in the Irish Republic.
Previous hopes of a breakthrough on WTO entry collapsed as negotiators failed to clinch a deal at the G8 summit in July.
At the G8 summit, I'm going to urge our partners to join us in this unprecedented effort to fight these dreaded diseases.
The discussions were a follow-up to the discussions around the eurozone crisis that were held at the G8 summit at Camp David.
The Middle East tour will follow Mr Bush's attendance at the G8 summit in Evian, France and trips to Russia and Poland.
Mr Cameron said at the G8 summit in June that he did not expect British troops to be in Afghanistan in five years' time.
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Mr. Chirac and others are going to be dining in Scotland this week with Prime Minister Tony Blair as the host of the G8 Summit.
The trip to Rome was the third stop on Bush's tour following a visit to London and his visit to the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy.
The G8 summit meeting was meant to be the prologue to what is an even more important though as yet undetermined date on the political calendar.
And also, there are reports that the President is now going to add Ireland to his visit when he goes to the G8 summit in May.
The meeting he convened, Brown said, is a precursor to the G8 summit of industrial nations, to be held in July, and a special U.N. summit in September.
When American and European leaders began trying to heal their rifts at the G8 summit at the start of this month, there were still visible signs of animosity.
Mr Brown said it was "winning support every day" and said a programme had been agreed to draw up more details in time for the G8 summit in July.
Other items on the agenda of the visit include Nato enlargement, Kosovo, and preparations for the G8 summit of the world's developed nations which takes place in Japan in July.
The final theme coming out of the G8 summit looks as if the final communique made vague references to adopting pro-growth measures, but individual countries might pursue its own policies.
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