All leaders gather for the G-8 summit

TOYAKO, Japan, July 7 (Itar-Tass) - France's President Nicolas Sarkozy was the last G-8 leader to arrive Hokkaido on Monday morning.

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev, U.S. President George W. Bush, Canadian and Italian Prime
Ministers Steven Harper and Silvio Berlusconi as well as the European
Commissions President Jose Manuel Barroso arrived in Toyako a day earlier.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had arrived on Monday morning a bit earlier than President Sarkozy.

George W. Bush is a veteran of the G-8 movement. Yasuo Fukuda, Dmitry
Medvedev and Gordon Brown are the summit's newcomers.