12/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - The meeting of G8 leaders will be held on 17 July on the sidelines of the Saint Petersbourg Summit with their counterparts from China, South Africa, India, Brazil and Mexico (EUROPE 9230). It will focus on international trade and especially on the possibility of bringing WTO talks on the Doha Round out of deadlock, Brazil's President Lula da Silva said in an interview with The Financial Times on 12 July. Given the deadlock in talks in Geneva, “leaders have to say whether they want progress or not”, Mr Lula said, considering “it is not possible that the presidents of the most important countries in the world can meet and the most important subject in the world not be discussed”. Multilateral trade talks do not appear on the official agenda of the G8 Summit given that the host country, Russia, is not yet a member of the WTO, but “we have to do it, even it it's only for a two-hour meeting”, Lula da Silva said.