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D10 Countries

January 21 , 2021 1315 days 1557 0
  • The United Kingdom has invited India, Australia and South Korea to attend the G7 summit as “guest countries”.
  • For a country to become the member of G7, it must hold high net national wealth and high Human Development Index.
  • It is scheduled to be held in June at United Kingdom.
  • The D10 group of countries was proposed by Britain.
  • The D10 group will include all the G7 countries and additionally India, Australia and South Korea.
  • D10 means Ten biggest democracies in the world.
  • G7 was originally formed in 1975.
  • The members are USA, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, UK. Russia was formally inducted as a member of the group in 1998.
  • With this G7 became G8.
  • However, when Russia moved its troops into eastern Ukraine and conquered Crimea in 2014, the other G8 countries criticized Russia heavily.       
  • With this, the G8 again became G7 in 2014.

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