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First, Delegates were shortlisted from hundreds of thousands of applications, then they were invited to a final selection process held in their own country.

During the summit they engaged in workshops, roundtable discussions and exercises to help them write a joint communiqué on the G7 agenda issues.

At the July 2006 summit held in St Petersburg, Russia eight young people from each of the countries were given a 45-minute audience with all of the G8 leaders for the first time.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the young people, "This G8 will go down in history as the one in which you participated in our joint work.

Topics at the 2009 J8 in Rome, Italy included: the financial crisis in the context of child rights, climate change, poverty and development in Africa, and a fourth theme of their choice, education.