On June 7, 2007, Chinese President Hu Jintao attended the collective meeting of the leaders of 5 developing countries in Berlin, capital of Germany: China, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico. This is a group of the leaders.

On June 7, 2007, Chinese President Hu Jintao attended the collective meeting of the leaders of 5 developing countries in Berlin.

On June 7, 2007, Chinese President Hu Jintao had a collective meeting with Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, Luiz Inacio da Silva, President of Brazil, Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa, and Felipe Calderon, President of Mexico, who were invited to attend the meeting between the leaders of G8 countries and developing countries. The leaders exchanged views on a number of key issues including climate change, how to jointly meet the challenges of economic globalization, Doha round of trade talks, and how to accelerate the development of developing countries.

The meeting was held at 18 o'clock local time in Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Berlin.

Hu pointed out that the economic globalization keeps moving forward and the world economy is experiencing a new round of growth. Developing countries are actively exploring development paths suited to their national conditions, seizing opportunities to accelerate development and enjoying a good momentum for growth. Developing countries should strengthen cooperation and consolidate solidarity to promote the establishment of a multi-polar world and a democratic international relationship. Developing countries have become an important force in maintaining world peace and promoting common development. Developing countries are still in a disadvantageous position in the course of world development and economic globalization has made these countries confront mounting challenges and impacts. The development issue of developing countries is far from being resolved.

Hu stressed that the population of China, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Mexico accounts for about 42% of the global population. The five countries have an increasingly important place in global economy and trade. Developing countries should cooperate with each other to jointly cope with the risks of economic globalization, safeguard our common interests, create favorable conditions for our development and promote coordinated development of the world. Hu raised the following recommendations: first, to enhance coordination and expand space for development. We should continue to work for the establishment of a sound international economic order and foster an enabling financial, trade and energy environment. We should urge international organizations like the United Nations to increase input for development and strive to increase the say and representation of developing countries in the international economic arena. We should urge developed countries to meet their commitments and provide more assistance for developing countries, exempt or reduce their debts and increase investment in and technology transfer to them; second, to be pragmatic in upgrading cooperation. Tremendous achievements have been made with the cooperation between developing countries in such fields as trade, investment, human resources training, infrastructure, culture, education and health in recent years. We should seize this favorable opportunity, further tap potentials, expand and enrich our cooperation and contribute to the common development of developing countries; third, to maintain and improve the meeting mechanism. The collective meeting mechanism of the five developing countries is good and should be maintained. We need to make good preparations for these meetings and take follow-up steps afterwards, maintain close consultations, share experiences and expand common ground to achieve concrete progress.

Hu said that China supports continued dialogue between developing and developed countries. We should increase the say of developing countries in the format, agenda and outcome of the dialogue and work to establish a new global partnership for development based on equality, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.

On climate change, Hu pointed out that climate change concerns the sustainable development of human beings. China gives high priority to environmental protection and sustainable development and pays attention to controlling the emission of greenhouse gases. China strictly complies with relevant international conventions and has taken a series of measures to contribute to mitigating the impact of global climate change, such as promoting the adjustment of economic structure, transforming the growth patterns to focus on energy saving and efficiency, developing renewable energies, and implementing ecological projects. The Chinese government has adopted a national climate change program. We will fully implement this program. In so doing, we are not only living up to our responsibilities for our own people, but also contributing our part to the global cause of sustainable development. China wishes to cooperate with the international community, especially developing countries, and strengthen communications with them under the framework of south-south cooperation. China wishes to learn from other countries and do our best to help other developing countries. (The full text will be also available.)

The leaders from the five nations pledged to abide by the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities while tackling climate change and urged developed nations to fulfill their commitments and take the lead in reducing greenhouse gas emission. Developing countries will also make their own contributions. With respect to the Doha round of trade talks, efforts should be made to conclude the negotiations at an early date and the results should reflect the interests and concerns of developing countries. The leaders also urged developed nations to reduce subsidies for agricultural products and lower import tariffs. The leaders vowed to continue efforts in eradicating hunger and poverty and urged developed nations to honor their commitments on aid and help developing countries achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals. The five developing countries should strengthen coordination and better safeguard the interests of developing countries in the dialogues with developed countries.

A communiqué was issued after the meeting, which points out that developing countries should participate in the relevant decision-making processes and actions in a more active attitude so as to meet various challenges in this inter-dependent world. The five developing countries possess Indispensable economic and political power and may play a decisive contribution to enhancing the participation of vast developing countries in the abovementioned endeavors. On the issues to be discussed with G8 countries, the leaders said they saw opportunities for cooperation in cross-border investment, research and innovation, climate change, energy and development. The challenges should be addressed from multi-lateral, regional and bilateral perspectives and the interests and capabilities of different countries should be taken into consideration.