New Delhi, July 5
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves for London tomorrow morning to participate as a special invitee in the G-8 summit in Gleneagles (UK), the first time ever that India has got such an honour to sit on the high table along with eight developed countries of the world.

The theme of this year’s summit meeting of G-8 (US, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Russia and Japan) is global economy, climate change and sustainable development. An action plan is expected to be thrashed out during the summit on issues relating to climate change as well as energy issues.

India would be pitching for recognition of the importance of global growth to the interest of the developing countries and for the need to mount collaborated research and development effort to come up with new clean technologies.

Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran today said India hoped that some kind of a partnership amongst the developing countries and the developed countries would emerge during this summit so that new technologies could be developed.